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29 Jul 2024 20:14:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tovolume: Sam found ridiculously easy way to create shapes.  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 21 Oct 2013 11:24:28
Message: <5265472c@news.povray.org>
>William F Pokorny  on date 21/10/2013 15.55 wrote:
> Off work today and playing with Sam's Tovolume code when it hit me, what
> he has discovered is an incredibly easy way to create silhouette based
> isosurface shapes.
>
> The blur.png file was drawn freehand in gimp with a solid brush after
> which a Gaussian blur was applied - the blur is what Sam's proximity
> pattern is doing in Tovolume. This single image is then used to create
> the isosurfaces with the following code:
>

A very interesting application of Sam's code, full of paths to explore!
Paolo


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