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From: SamuelT
Subject: country_grass include file example scene (grass.jpg 55k)
Date: 24 Jun 2000 18:32:18
Message: <3955378C.6E37F025@aol.com>
Here is a test scene made showing the abilities of the grass macro I
just uploaded to povray.binaries.scenes-files.

The grass still renders as fast as it did before.

I hope somebody finds a good use for my macro!

--
Samuel Benge

E-Mail: STB### [at] aolcom

Visit my isosurface tutorial at http://members.aol.com/stbenge


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From: Tony[B]
Subject: Re: country_grass include file example scene (grass.jpg 55k)
Date: 24 Jun 2000 20:29:24
Message: <39555264@news.povray.org>
Oh, excelente... muchas gracias. :)


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: country_grass include file example scene (grass.jpg 55k)
Date: 24 Jun 2000 23:39:51
Message: <39557f07@news.povray.org>
Hmmm, so why not use this as a type of fur too?  That seems something it could
be if applied via 'trace()'.  If it remains reasonably fast rendering that
could be a good use also.

Bob


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From: Tony[B]
Subject: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 01:19:28
Message: <39559660@news.povray.org>
> Hmmm, so why not use this as a type of fur too?  That seems something it
could
> be if applied via 'trace()'.  If it remains reasonably fast rendering that
> could be a good use also.

Speaking of trace(), I modified country_grass to allow it to adapt to the
contours of the terrain it grows on (i.e. it moves up or down to place its
base at the intersection point on the terrain, just like my modification of
Gilles' grass). Here's an example image...


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 02:23:28
Message: <3955a560@news.povray.org>
Great.  The only thing wrong with all of these is the barren rock --- mud,
soil, whatever--- look to the ground for such a lush kind of grass  :-)
instead of a more old-growth sod kind of thing.  Just my inclusion of a
negative comment as usual.

Bob


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From: Rick
Subject: Re: country_grass include file example scene (grass.jpg 55k)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 10:15:20
Message: <395613f8@news.povray.org>
nice, really nice, i need grass in a recent scene i did, and ended up using
a mesh i found online, looked ok but the render time sucked

> I hope somebody finds a good use for my macro!

i will give it a go!,

my lack of ability at povray coding (caused by a moray dependency) may mean
it will be a long while before i figure out how to use it tho! - how about a
moray plug!

Rick


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From: Rick
Subject: Re: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 10:15:24
Message: <395613fc@news.povray.org>
whoa!, now thats cool

time to learn pov methinks

Rick


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 11:13:16
Message: <chrishuff-5EE3A0.10174525062000@news.povray.org>
In article <3955a560@news.povray.org>, "Bob Hughes" 
<per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:

> Great.  The only thing wrong with all of these is the barren rock --- mud,
> soil, whatever--- look to the ground for such a lush kind of grass  :-)
> instead of a more old-growth sod kind of thing.  Just my inclusion of a
> negative comment as usual.

That could be fixed by applying a grass texture to the ground instead of 
a dirt texture...a simple texture varying between shades of green and 
brown would work. The problem is that lawn grass is more dense and has 
layers of blades of different length in different orientation, and dead 
blades at the bottom...this actually looks much like the grass in the 
area around our ponds(sparse clumps, with dirt/sand in between).

One possible feature for this include: the ability to control the 
density/height of the grass with a pigment. With this, it should be 
possible to control the grass placement precisely with the object 
pattern, or to make "grass faces" by using an image_map.

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Christopher James Huff - Personal e-mail: chr### [at] maccom
TAG(Technical Assistance Group) e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
Personal Web page: http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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From: SamuelT
Subject: Re: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 14:02:20
Message: <395649EB.B14A9E3D@aol.com>
Good work Tony!

"Tony[B]" wrote:

> > Hmmm, so why not use this as a type of fur too?  That seems something it
> could
> > be if applied via 'trace()'.  If it remains reasonably fast rendering that
> > could be a good use also.
>
> Speaking of trace(), I modified country_grass to allow it to adapt to the
> contours of the terrain it grows on (i.e. it moves up or down to place its
> base at the intersection point on the terrain, just like my modification of
> Gilles' grass). Here's an example image...
>
>  [Image]

--
Samuel Benge

E-Mail: STB### [at] aolcom

Visit my isosurface tutorial at http://members.aol.com/stbenge


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From: ross litscher
Subject: Re: trace()ing (~47.3kau)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:39:52
Message: <3956B5DE.C5F91892@osu.edu>
"Tony[B]" wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, so why not use this as a type of fur too?  That seems something it
> could
> > be if applied via 'trace()'.  If it remains reasonably fast rendering that
> > could be a good use also.
> 
> Speaking of trace(), I modified country_grass to allow it to adapt to the
> contours of the terrain it grows on (i.e. it moves up or down to place its
> base at the intersection point on the terrain, just like my modification of
> Gilles' grass). Here's an example image...
> 
>  [Image]


That is beautiful grass.


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