On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:11:21 -0500, "TonyB"
<ben### [at] panamac-comnet> wrote:

>>The name I believe comes from the book or more widely known the movie with
>>sting playing one of the bad guys... ( Quote:<english accent> I will kill
>>you!!!)
>
>Never heard of it. BTW, who or what is "sting"?

The only man I've seen using a double bass (contrabass) as a bass
guitar. Finger picking at that...


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Moon47 wrote:

> Arrakis had virtually none, or very few rock structures...

Don't you remember when the great stone cliff near that one base that had the
force field? The one that got blow up?


>  Where are the sand worms... And the lightning in the ground that
> proceeds them...?

They don't have a reason to come out..... Anyways, they can't manuever very well
around all those rocks. :)


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Simen Kvaal wrote:

> YES! Finally someone who achieved the mf-results that I wanted!

Where? (looks both ways :)


> Maybe you
> could inform me about the parameters and how to adjust them? I couldn't
> figure it out from the docs. I understand what the different params _mean_
> but not how to set them, if you know what I mean...

Yeah, they didn't tell us where to start, only that 'H' did this, and such; they
didn't give us starting numbers to use.
Here's my scene code:

#version unofficial MegaPov .4;

camera{location<0,3,-8>*4 look_at y*-4 rotate y*0 angle 40}

light_source{<200000,100000,-0000>,<1.2 1.2 1.15>}
light_source{<-100000,-10000,-20000>,<.15 .1 .05> shadowless}

//sky_sphere{pigment{granite color_map{[0 rgb<.4 .7 1>][1 rgb 1]}}}

background{<.65 .8 1>*.8}

fog{rgb<.95 .9 .8> distance 200 fog_type 2 fog_alt 20 fog_offset 0}

#declare Fract=function "ridgedMF",<1,2,8,-.5,1>

isosurface{
 function (-y)+(Fract(x,0,z)/15)
 threshold 1 sign -1
 accuracy .001 method 2 eval
 contained_by{box{<-10,-2,-5>,<10,0,10>}}
 //pigment{rgb 1}finish{diffuse 1}
 texture{slope y
  texture_map{
   [.915 pigment{rgb<.45 .4 .3>}normal{granite .5 scale .1}]
   [.925 pigment{rgb<.9 .8 .7>}finish{diffuse .9}]
  }
 }
 scale 20
}


> What was the render time on this?

41 minutes and 45 seconds (ouch) on my P166 mhz

>

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The singer from the police...? Ya' know <real bad singing
voice>"Roxane.......     you don't have ta turn on tha red
light.....Raaaaksane..."
Any way where have you been under a rock or something... just kidding...
Check out the book in your local or school library... I think you would like
it... Or if you're too lazy there's always blockbuster but i recommend the
book it is much more detailed...

TonyB wrote:

> >The name I believe comes from the book or more widely known the movie with
> >sting playing one of the bad guys... ( Quote:<english accent> I will kill
> >you!!!)
>
> Never heard of it. BTW, who or what is "sting"?

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Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Great image, but I must have missed something. What are these ridged
> multifractals and how can I get one to play with? Will my Wife get mad at me
> if I play with it too much?

They are functions to be used for isosurfaces. They make excellent mountains and
are available within MegaPov .4

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In article <38D84108.AE515B11@aol.com>, "SamuelT." <STB### [at] aolcom> 
wrote:

> Moon47 wrote:
> 
> > Arrakis had virtually none, or very few rock structures...
> 
> Don't you remember when the great stone cliff near that one base that 
> had the force field? The one that got blow up?

I read one of the Dune books, and apparently, almost all of the land of 
Arrakis was just sand with no rock structures. There was a huge "wall" 
of rock, I think it was artificial(maybe that is what happened to the 
rock formations, they were scavenged for construction material. I don't 
remember very well, though).

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SamuelT. wrote:
> 
> I was playing with ridged multifractals today and here is one of the
> results. Any questions or comments?
> 
	Looks very good. Any chance of a peek at the code? Please?

		Jerome
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Moon47 wrote:
> 
> The singer from the police...? Ya' know <real bad singing
> voice>"Roxane.......     you don't have ta turn on tha red
> light.....Raaaaksane..."
> Any way where have you been under a rock or something... just kidding...
> Check out the book in your local or school library... I think you would like
> it... Or if you're too lazy there's always blockbuster but i recommend the
> book it is much more detailed...
> 
	And much better anyway... The film is a great comic show
once you've read the book, though I doubt that was the
intention...

		Jerome
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Thanks for the code

		Jerome
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"Jerome" <ber### [at] inamecom> wrote :
> >
> And much better anyway... The film is a great comic show
> once you've read the book, though I doubt that was the
> intention...
>

    The film is comedic only if you don't take it as an insult. I found it
insulting.

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