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Interesting, are the molding lines made of toruses with a small minor 
radius?
It might be interesting to make a version with the balls made of two 
joined hemispheres, each with a different texture. So the balls would be 
half one texture and half another, joined with that seam.

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Great image! I especially love the ground texture.

The seem is part of the normal map?

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Close, I actually used an extremely squashed sphere, but a torus would look
the same, eh?


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"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> Interesting, are the molding lines made of toruses with a small minor
> radius?
> It might be interesting to make a version with the balls made of two
> joined hemispheres, each with a different texture. So the balls would be
> half one texture and half another, joined with that seam.
>
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How dare you post this here!!!
This is a family newgroop.
I, for one, will never read or post here again.

I encourage all to do the same.

A former povray.binaries.images reader.

Peter Warren
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p.s.
berry berry nice balls.
I would have guessed torii.
A most elegant solution (squashed spheres).

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LOL!  Thanks for the laugh and the compliment.

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"Peter Warren" <int### [at] halcyoncom> wrote in message
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> How dare you post this here!!!
> This is a family newgroop.
> I, for one, will never read or post here again.
>
> I encourage all to do the same.
>
> A former povray.binaries.images reader.
>
> Peter Warren
> war### [at] hotmailcom
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> p.s.
> berry berry nice balls.
> I would have guessed torii.
> A most elegant solution (squashed spheres).
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>
>
>

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Thanks, I spent a lot of tweaking getting the texture "just so" ...

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"David Curtis" <spa### [at] junkmailcom> wrote in message
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> Great image! I especially love the ground texture.
>
> The seem is part of the normal map?
>
> In article <38a2ad7c@news.povray.org>, "Paul Vanukoff"
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> wrote:
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> Close, I actually used an extremely squashed sphere, but a torus would
look
> the same, eh?

a torus would be a little more fiddely, looks great with a sphere!

btw, quite relieved to see a shere / plane picture with no reflection, or
checkers anywhere!

Rick

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Very nice realism, and it looks so simple. It reminds me of those rubber
"super-bounce" balls on an excersize mat. How did you place the balls?
I'm curious as to how you distributed them.

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Is that camera distortion at the edges? Some of them look oblong.

Dirk

Otherwise, it rocks. Reminds me of the final marbles scene in Men In Black.


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I was trying to emulate those super bounce balls. Placement was actually
quite easy. I placed them on an evenly spaced grid, where each "cell" has a
75% chance of containing a ball (using rand() ). Then I moved each ball a
random amount in the x and z directions, the maximum any ball could move was
half the grid spacing, that way, it would look very random, but no balls
would touch each other.

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> Very nice realism, and it looks so simple. It reminds me of those rubber
> "super-bounce" balls on an excersize mat. How did you place the balls?
> I'm curious as to how you distributed them.
>
> Paul Vanukoff wrote:
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Yep, good old camera distortion. Ugh. Thanks for the compliment. I
appreciate it.

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> Is that camera distortion at the edges? Some of them look oblong.
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> Dirk
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> Otherwise, it rocks. Reminds me of the final marbles scene in Men In
Black.
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I tried something similar with my grasspatch macro. I didn't try the "75% chance
of having a ball" idea, tho. I found for really large number of placements,
there is little visible difference between the two methods (simply finding
random ponits within the boundary was the second method) and I think the second
method parsed faster...

But it looks natural and good, and that's the important thing, isn't it?

Paul Vanukoff wrote:

> I was trying to emulate those super bounce balls. Placement was actually
> quite easy. I placed them on an evenly spaced grid, where each "cell" has a
> 75% chance of containing a ball (using rand() ). Then I moved each ball a
> random amount in the x and z directions, the maximum any ball could move was
> half the grid spacing, that way, it would look very random, but no balls
> would touch each other.
>
> --
> Paul Vanukoff
> van### [at] primenetcom
>
> "Josh English" <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote in message
> news:38A2E0E4.A9CDBC05@spiritone.com...
> > Very nice realism, and it looks so simple. It reminds me of those rubber
> > "super-bounce" balls on an excersize mat. How did you place the balls?
> > I'm curious as to how you distributed them.
> >
> > Paul Vanukoff wrote:
> >
> > > I'll spare you the remainder of the subject lines I thought of.
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> > >  [Image]
> >
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> > "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:20:57 -0700, "Paul Vanukoff"
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Man, you sure have balls!

Oh, and you might have a lot of guts to post here but please don't.


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> Oh, and you might have a lot of guts to post here but please don't.

Sphere sweeps? Or isosurfaces? :-)

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If you were going for the chinsy printed metal look, excellent job! How
were they placed?
"You don't have the balls to post here!"

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David Fontaine wrote:

> If you were going for the chinsy printed metal look, excellent job! How
> were they placed?
> "You don't have the balls to post here!"

I just read the replies. They do look like they could be bouncy balls. But
you have to admit they also look a lot lot cheap metal thing. Perhaps
hollow and the seam is maybe really a crack and it's hinged and there's a
"prize" inside.
And I saw the placement method...

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I serpose they could look like cheap metal ... maybe I should've toned down
the grainy look a bit. But maybe you are right, maybe there really are
prizes inside! I'll have to render one opened up to find out ... :)


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>> If you were going for the chinsy printed metal look, excellent job! How
>> were they placed?
>> "You don't have the balls to post here!"
>
>I just read the replies. They do look like they could be bouncy balls. But
>you have to admit they also look a lot lot cheap metal thing. Perhaps
>hollow and the seam is maybe really a crack and it's hinged and there's a
>"prize" inside.
>And I saw the placement method...
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