In article <40759667@news.povray.org>,
 Ross Litscher <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote:

> Interesting :) I've heard of the book, but never knew what it was about.

Well, that's just part of the setting...the book is called "The 
Fountains of Paradise", but it isn't about the fountains...not water 
ones, anyway. It's really a surprisingly accurate story about a guy 
trying to build a space elevator...it starts off with him demonstrating 
a remarkably strong new material composed of of long chain molecules of 
carbon.


> For
> this scene, i got stuck on the waterfall part that was supposed to be at
> the near end, but isn't. I thought about doing tiny blobs, but how to do a
> nice "fade" between the top surface heightfield and the droplets, i don't
> know. H.E. Day had an amazing waterfall a few years back... maybe it's time
> to search to see if he posted code. 

Make a fountain instead? ;-)

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