I was just further developing my method of using a
mesh to tile something to near-infinity.  Here it goes in
three dimensions.  It's a cube of cubes so big that the
opposite corner in the horizon.
        Source in povray.text.scene-files subject:
"tiling to infinity 3d"

Pete

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Pete wrote in message <286### [at] nymaliasnet>...
>        I was just further developing my method of using a
>mesh to tile something to near-infinity.  Here it goes in
>three dimensions.  It's a cube of cubes so big that the
>opposite corner in the horizon.


<sarcasm>Only a quarter-billion triangles?  The recently-posted "Scrub"
image by Mick Hazelgrove contained five billion triangles.</sarcasm>


Mark

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Lets not play numbers - the interesting thing about the use of meshes is
just how little memory they use.

This is an interesting variation, I like the colors and think you should use
some thing organic or robotic to set it off.

Keep up the good work.

Mick

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> Pete wrote in message <286### [at] nymaliasnet>...
> >        I was just further developing my method of using a
> >mesh to tile something to near-infinity.  Here it goes in
> >three dimensions.  It's a cube of cubes so big that the
> >opposite corner in the horizon.
>
>
> <sarcasm>Only a quarter-billion triangles?  The recently-posted "Scrub"
> image by Mick Hazelgrove contained five billion triangles.</sarcasm>
>
>
> Mark
>
>

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Pete wrote:
> 
>         I was just further developing my method of using a
> mesh to tile something to near-infinity.  Here it goes in
> three dimensions.  It's a cube of cubes so big that the
> opposite corner in the horizon.
>         Source in povray.text.scene-files subject:
> "tiling to infinity 3d"
> 

Sorry, I couldn't resist, here is an isosurface version of the same thing. 

The mesh version beats it by some seconds in time in this configuration, but
when coming nearer to infinity or to more detail (smaller gridsize for example)
it would be better, concerning memory use anyway.  

Stats:

Mesh version:
Peak memory used:         18043381 bytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes  10.0 seconds (10 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours  3 minutes  37.0 seconds (217 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  3 minutes  47.0 seconds (227 seconds)

Isosurface version:
Peak memory used:           329355 bytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time For Trace:    0 hours  3 minutes  54.0 seconds (234 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  3 minutes  54.0 seconds (234 seconds)


Christoph

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