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From: Rune
Subject: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 15:33:32
Message: <39b69c0c@news.povray.org>
:-)

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From: C J 
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 16:36:30
Message: <39b6aace$1@news.povray.org>
Very nice Rune! I would love to see the code on this.
:)

C.J. - POV User
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From: Jan Rasmussen
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 17:10:40
Message: <39B6B336.E3165EF8@Jiffy.dk>
"C.J." wrote:
> Very nice Rune! ...... [e-scissors]

Awesome :-)

What about a pyrotechnical display based on your work, Rune?

Best Regards

Jan Rasmussen


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From: Josh English
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 18:08:02
Message: <39B6C037.D8CA4072@spiritone.com>
Wonderful samples. I suspect a full fireworks package will be completed
by new years!

Josh

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From: Tony[B]
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 19:33:36
Message: <39b6d450@news.povray.org>
That is just plain gorgeous, man! Source me now... :)


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From: Dave Blandston
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 23:12:11
Message: <39b7078b@news.povray.org>
This glowing stuff is so cool - too bad it won't make it into v3.5. :(

(Call me a nerd, but I just use the official releases...)


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 23:41:52
Message: <39b70e80@news.povray.org>
"Dave Blandston" <gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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| This glowing stuff is so cool - too bad it won't make it into v3.5. :(
|
| (Call me a nerd, but I just use the official releases...)

You nerd you.  There, happy now?
I wasn't one to use those "other" custom POV-Ray's much myself but it has
taken over now and I seldom run the official version anymore.  It all
started back when 3.01 went to 3.02 in such a relatively short time span,
then moreso when 3.1 went through it's phases.  Now it's become commonplace
to have two or more installed.
The wait for 4.0 could become like a myth in reverse, that is to say before
it exists it'll be considered well known yet with no proof of existence.  No
problem for those people happy to commute from official to unofficial
versions and also those who only see each new version being distributed, but
I have to pity those in limbo.

Bob


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 6 Sep 2000 23:44:07
Message: <39b70f07@news.povray.org>
"Jan Rasmussen" <Jan### [at] Jiffydk> wrote in message
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|
| "C.J." wrote:
| > Very nice Rune! ...... [e-scissors]
|
| Awesome :-)
|
| What about a pyrotechnical display based on your work, Rune?

This is a fascinating thing to see in action.  It is very firework-like, I
agree.  There seems to be many possibilities for how to put it to use.

Bob


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From: Dave Blandston
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 01:47:53
Message: <39b72c09@news.povray.org>
"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> The wait for 4.0 could become like a myth in reverse, that is to say
before
> it exists it'll be considered well known yet with no proof of existence.

But what do y'all have to look forward to? Imagine how exciting a new
official release is for me! The anticipation over 3.5 is building for me,
probably much more so than for you MegaPOVers... I may still break down one
day and try MegaPOV again (or MP+, or Super MP++, or whatever else is out
there), but the unofficial version that I did try didn't seem to be real
stable or bug-free. Although I must admit that some of those features are
quite tempting...

Regards,
Dave


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From: Ian Witham
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 01:59:38
Message: <39b72eca@news.povray.org>
How does it feel when your special effects surpass the original Starwars
movies?

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From: ryan constantine
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 11:29:20
Message: <39B7B456.FBAE391F@yahoo.com>
whatever

Ian Witham wrote:
> 
> How does it feel when your special effects surpass the original Starwars
> movies?
> 
> --
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> Ian
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From: Ian Witham
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 12:49:10
Message: <39b7c706@news.povray.org>
Oh, sorry, apparently that was blasphemous of me ;-)

"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> whatever
>
> Ian Witham wrote:
> >
> > How does it feel when your special effects surpass the original Starwars
> > movies?


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:19
Message: <39b7e947@news.povray.org>
"Josh English" wrote:
> Wonderful samples.

Thank you!

> I suspect a full fireworks package will be completed
> by new years!

What is a complete package supposed to include? :-)

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:21
Message: <39b7e949@news.povray.org>
"Tony[B]" wrote:
> That is just plain gorgeous, man! Source me now... :)

Thanks, but the glows really do all the work. Unlike media, radiosity,
photons, and many other POV-Ray features glows are actually *very* *easy* to
work with!

Use a while loop to generate about 100 glows with random locations and
colours, and then multiply the locations by the clock - it's that simple to
make an explosion like this one. Of course I did some adjustments, but
nothing complicated.

Because it's so simple, I see no reason to post the code. Instead, have a
try yourself! :-)

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:22
Message: <39b7e94a@news.povray.org>
"Dave Blandston" wrote:
> Imagine how exciting a new official release is for me!

Very, I guess.

> but the unofficial version that I did try didn't seem to be
> real stable or bug-free.

Regular MegaPOV have not caused me many problems, but the current version of
MegaPOV Plus has an extremely annoying memory leak - I had to do the
animations over many small passes.

> Although I must admit that some of those features are
> quite tempting...

And there's also some major bugs in the official version that has been fixed
in MegaPOV...

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:23
Message: <39b7e94b@news.povray.org>
"Ian Witham" wrote:
> How does it feel when your special effects surpass
> the original Starwars movies?

Uhm, nice? :-)

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:24
Message: <39b7e94c$1@news.povray.org>
"C.J." wrote:
> Very nice Rune!

Thank you!

> I would love to see the code on this.
> :)

No need to! See my reply to TonyB.

Greetings,

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:26
Message: <39b7e94e@news.povray.org>
"Jan Rasmussen" wrote:
> Awesome :-)

Thank you!

> What about a pyrotechnical display based on your work, Rune?

As you wish! See the message "You want fireworks?".

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 15:15:27
Message: <39b7e94f@news.povray.org>
"Bob Hughes" wrote:
> This is a fascinating thing to see in action.  It is very
> firework-like, I agree.  There seems to be many possibilities
> for how to put it to use.

Glows can indeed be used for many things, they are really fast, and really
easy to use.

Greetings,

Rune
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From: ryan constantine
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 7 Sep 2000 19:23:57
Message: <39B82393.CAC59BDA@yahoo.com>
> Oh, sorry, apparently that was blasphemous of me ;-)

haha. exactly.<g>


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 8 Sep 2000 13:07:02
Message: <39b91cb6@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> wrote :
>
> Because it's so simple, I see no reason to post the code. Instead, have a
> try yourself! :-)

    I have been unable to use glows as a declared object, is that in the
works or do I just not know how to use them?


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Glowing Space Explosion
Date: 8 Sep 2000 17:16:41
Message: <chrishuff-B9496D.16182808092000@news.povray.org>
In article <39b91cb6@news.povray.org>, "Bill DeWitt" 
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>     I have been unable to use glows as a declared object, is that in the
> works or do I just not know how to use them?

Glows can not be used as declared objects because they are not objects. 
I could make them objects, but the per-glow memory requirements would be 
much higher.
I have made modifications so they are treated as objects sometimes, so 
you could put them in unions, etc. I will take a look at allowing them 
to be declared, that is something I have never implemented before. 
Another thing I need to do is allow them to be transformed...

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