How about some transparency, some slight turbulence in the pigment, and a
foreboding shark fin to go along with the dark, ominous mood?

"Alberto" <jac### [at] usbve> wrote in message news:395679CB.A3293EDE@usb.ve...
> The image was created with a ridgedmf isosurface. Although low in memory
> consumption it took half an hour in a 233 Mhz iMac to render.
> Comments?

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I haven't thought of using ridgedMF for water yet, it works good! Is yours an
isosurface, hf, or surface normal on a plane?

Alberto wrote:

> The image was created with a ridgedmf isosurface. Although low in memory
> consumption it took half an hour in a 233 Mhz iMac to render.
> Comments?
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:30:01 -0400, Alberto <jac### [at] usbve> wrote:

>The image was created with a ridgedmf isosurface. Although low in memory
>consumption it took half an hour in a 233 Mhz iMac to render.
>Comments?

A great demonstration of the ridgedmf isosurface, congrats! The shape
is great, now go for the surface and interior properties and it'll
look perfect!


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I expect an animation in .animations by tommorow...






















Great work! :)

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> Looks promising, even though it misses some reflection of the sky (is
> there a sky ? :-)
> 
> I'm also not sure about the sharp dark lines.
> 
> Christoph

Well, actually there is no sky, only a white background. I'll put a sky
and see what happens.

Alberto.

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Simen Kvaal wrote:
> 
> I think it's great! i belive the dark lines actually _will_ show up. Only a
> hunch, of course. I can really see this with some blinn-highlights, photons
> and stuff! IMO this ridgedmf is _perfet_ for a semi-stirred-up ocean.
> 
> Simen.
> 
Thanks for the comments. I also considered the blinn-highlights but the
isosurface uses a 1.3 ior and that's too low for this purpose. :-(

Alberto.

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SamuelT wrote:
> 
> I haven't thought of using ridgedMF for water yet, it works good! Is yours an
> isosurface, hf, or surface normal on a plane?
> 

As I mentioned before it's an isosurface

isosurface{function{y - myridgedmf(x, y, z)}...

Alberto

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"Tony[B]" wrote:
> 
> I expect an animation in .animations by tommorow...
> 
> Great work! :)

Thank you.

Alberto.

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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:30:01 -0400, Alberto <jac### [at] usbve> wrote:
> 
> >The image was created with a ridgedmf isosurface. Although low in memory
> >consumption it took half an hour in a 233 Mhz iMac to render.
> >Comments?
> 
> A great demonstration of the ridgedmf isosurface, congrats!

Thanks!

>The shape
> is great, now go for the surface and interior properties and it'll
> look perfect!

I'll work on it.

Alberto

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:07:55 +0200, Christoph Hormann
<Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> wrote:

>Looks promising, even though it misses some reflection of the sky (is
>there a sky ? :-)
>
>I'm also not sure about the sharp dark lines.

Just for comparison, I've attached an actual photograph I took of a
nearby lake. I think Alberto came *very* close to real water with his
POV rendering. You'll notice that those "sharp dark lines" also appear
in my photo.

Later,
Glen Berry

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