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2 Oct 2024 08:18:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fast Grass (grass.jpg 82 kb bu)  
From: SamuelT
Date: 23 Jun 2000 13:29:44
Message: <39539F62.51B7B1C8@aol.com>
I've got to remember how to animate, but my computer currently crashes when I try
to play an avi file.

Bob Hughes wrote:

> "SamuelT" <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote in message news:3952BE36.8E44BAC1@aol.com...
> | Here's some fast-rendering grass I came up with today.  The whole scene
> | (5000 blades of grass, 25001 objects) took only 1 minute, 57 seconds
> | with aa on. I'm running an AMD k6-2 500 mhz processor with 128mb ram.
> | What do you think? Is the grass fast?
> |
> | P.S. I rotated and scale the grass according to a hidden pigment to
> | simulate wind effects.
>
> It's fast if that's render + parse time, I think so anyhow.
> I realize now that it isn't just made up of a zero-sided box and a single
> triangle as I first thought, silly me.  But I still don't understand anything
> about eval_pigment yet.  I'll get around to it someday though.
> If you have this ready to animate (or not) I'm sure it would look fantastic if
> it were.
>
> Bob


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