In article <3912b104@news.povray.org>, "Mael" <mae### [at] hotmailcom> 
wrote:

> hi
> 
> anyone has tried to simulate some pruning to realize topiary with those
> tree&plants macro ?
> i think that by using the Trace() function we can get some very 
> interesting
> results ..
> 
> see
> http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Labs/Isl/projects_done/topiary/growHome.html
> for example (in this case it is an external programm that computes the
> geometry, it should be possible to do the same with recursives macro
> directly under pov)

I think eval_pattern() or eval_pigment() would be more useful...you 
could make it branch more in certain areas than in others, and stop 
growing if it reaches outside a certain area, and control it all using 
patterns.

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