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19 Apr 2024 17:08:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MegaPOV mountains lakes circa 2001  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 10 Feb 2017 02:55:08
Message: <589d71dc@news.povray.org>
On 9-2-2017 14:40, omniverse wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> On 9-2-2017 2:02, omniverse wrote:
>>
>> Could this attached file help? It is from Bob Hughes (2003). It is not
>> an animation but I think the scene's purpose is identical.
>
> Wow Thomas! Another oldie (also from me BTW).

Hi Bob, I had not immediately made the connection :-)

> Maybe too slow for animation, I was surprised how long it took when trying it
> here. Maybe it's that radiosity, easily skipped.

It is a slow process indeed. I still intend to study this scene more 
closely. I find the differential snow cover very tempting to use one way 
or another in a scene.

>
> I was able to get that old MegaPOV animation to render. What was stopping me
> before was the old style slope pattern, only needed newer syntax.
>
> And the animation started below the landscape so I changed the noise type
> (actually didn't have one before) for the isosurface f_ridged_mf function.
>
> That modified scene file is attached here, despite needing much more done to it.
>
> Bob
>


-- 
Thomas


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