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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 8 Mar 2000 02:47:47
Message: <kAXGOITJGckQoCFX6SPGoK8oXt9t@4ax.com>
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:24:10 -0500, "Bill DeWitt"
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>> Are all these cubes really there or are you using some witty(1) trick
>> like mirrors?
>
>    Something like 960000 IsoSurfaces. A simple grid of an inverse of a
>Menenger Sponge.

Oooook...


Peter Popov
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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 8 Mar 2000 12:03:54
Message: <38c687fa@news.povray.org>
Stickle-Bricks!

David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
news:38C5CAB9.7E9E749A@faricy.net...
> Reminds me of those old toys that stuck together with a bunch of tiny
> pegs... they meshed together by slightly offsetting the bricks... do you
> remember these?


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 8 Mar 2000 20:34:50
Message: <slrn8cdra9.bo9.sjlen@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:36:25 -0600, David Fontaine wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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>Reminds me of those old toys that stuck together with a bunch of tiny
>pegs... they meshed together by slightly offsetting the bricks... do you
>remember these?
>I just had a fatal crash, so here goes again (sigh)

Sticcle Bricks.  


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From: David Fontaine
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 8 Mar 2000 23:32:14
Message: <38C72890.20858AC2@faricy.net>
Damn, I could have sworn my sig was under the line limit. Well, should work
now...

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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:15:17
Message: <38c795d5@news.povray.org>
This is more like what I wanted it to look like. Resampled down to 800x600
and compressed 25% in .jpg


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From: Marc Schimmler
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:27:53
Message: <38C798C9.D1AD4933@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> This is more like what I wanted it to look like. Resampled down to 800x600
> and compressed 25% in .jpg
> 
>  [Image]

This is cool ... eehh hot! :-)
It sure has some alien look. It would be interesting to see it in a less
plain texture. Maybe some normals, etc.

Marc

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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:33:52
Message: <chrishuff_99-3F9B66.07353809032000@news.povray.org>
In article <38c795d5@news.povray.org>, "Bill DeWitt" 
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> This is more like what I wanted it to look like. Resampled down to 800x600
> and compressed 25% in .jpg

Heat transfer units for a geothermal power station built on a stabilized 
volcano?

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:45:47
Message: <38C79D95.A73E6741@pacbell.net>
Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <38c795d5@news.povray.org>, "Bill DeWitt"
> <the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> 
> > This is more like what I wanted it to look like. Resampled down to 800x600
> > and compressed 25% in .jpg
> 
> Heat transfer units for a geothermal power station built on a stabilized
> volcano?

No. Heat sinks for a 5 giga-hertz Pentium processor.

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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:58:37
Message: <38c79ffd@news.povray.org>
"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote :
>
> Heat transfer units for a geothermal power station built on a stabilized
> volcano?
>

    Although you cannot see the curvature at this scale, it actually
surrounds the star.


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From: Marc Schimmler
Subject: Re: Burning Box of Sponges
Date: 9 Mar 2000 08:01:39
Message: <38C7A0B3.86F8E6E3@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
>     Although you cannot see the curvature at this scale, it actually
> surrounds the star.

Have read SF from David Brin recently? Second Uplift trilogy?

Marc

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