hi all,

here is the scene that that pink rug image came from (the gridded
turbulence post from 2 days ago).
the animation is rendering currently, my computer at work is free for
the next 3 weeks, so i'm going for quality overkill :).
the animation (which i'll post next year(!)) is simple of the grass
blowing in the wind, and i hope it works (i've had time for only afew
tests).
this pic took about 50 mins to render.
the scene was created with mpov06a, using the pattern image type to pipe
a texture straight through to the height field (later i'll render the hf
for speed, at the moment it regenerates a static hf every frame),
trace() to place the grass and rock limpets over the scene (constantly
referencing the hf texture to check if the trace was on the rocks or on
the sand), radiosity for that georgeous finish, and a nice arealight.

i can post the source later, i haven't quite finished the scene (mainly
background and stuff floating thru the air), and the grass algo was
rushed so they aren't all perfect strands, but the source is an utter
pig sty! I'll see how it ends up!

does any one here know aphex twin's track called Blue Calx (sel. ambient
works vol.2 disc2 track 1)? That, i'd have to say, would be the perfect
sound track to this animation.

Anyway, i'm off for my christmas break. See you in 3 weeks!

benp

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