Bob Hughes <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in 
message news:388fdaed@news.povray.org...
> Yes, animated, although that makes little difference if you set it up 
like an
> animation and use a mid range clock value for instance to do the still 
image.
> The stream flow thing was simply a spray directed along the ground 
plane.  I was
> thinking it could also fall from a height onto the ground with little 
or no
> bounce to pool up in a basin.  The main problem being to keep it 
around long
> enough (the lifetime and evaporation parameters) since the particles 
have a
> tendency to shrink away regardless of the settings from what I could 
tell about
> it.
> It should be possible for a limited puddling anyhow just using the 
spray alone
> and no separate puddle object.

Ok so It doesn't matter for animation or stills the settings would come 
out to be about the same then. Gotcha



> Not sure I gather your reasoning about the torus or cylinder with a 
hole for
> standing water, unless you meant for the containing object.  That 
would need
> some CSG used on the spray.  I usually go with either plane, clipped 
plane, box,
> blob, disc or cylinder as water surfaces with a wrinkles pattern or 
highly
> turbulent ripples (waves if active water).  Others have used 
'height_field' too,
> in various ways.

The reasoning might not make sense becasue of my lack of indepth 
knowledge of the laws of POV. What I was thinking was since the bowlish 
part of the fountain (the only part I have finisht at the time) looks 
like the bottom half of a shpere with an upside down hollow cone in the 
middle I would need some way to get the water around the cone but I'm 
now seeing that that doesn't make much sense since the water will be 
tranparent (or translucent I haven't decided) anyway.

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