In article <3d52f212@news.povray.org>,
 "Pandora" <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote:

>     Has anyone tried isosurfaces for leaves, petals, etc ?
>     Could be a tad slow in rendering, compared to meshes, I guess, but
> there's the flexibility to get some real nice looking foliage with iso's...

It has been done, a combination of noise and a sphere function can do an 
approximation of dense foliage that looks OK from a distance, but it is 
slow and is pretty much useless close up.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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