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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: The Machine / Hermite Spline Wires
Date: 13 Oct 2000 07:32:06
Message: <39e6f2b6@news.povray.org>
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Wow...
A matter-antimatter time-distortion drive...?
ZK
http://www.povplace.be.tf
Steven Pigeon <pig### [at] iro umontrealca> schreef in berichtnieuws
39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca...
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
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> Comments?
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> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
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> The Spline Wire macros are there:
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> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon/povpage/macros/SplineWire.inc
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> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
> University of Montreal.
> pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
> pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
> ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
> and wavelets.
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> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
That's easy. It's a heater for those cold Quebec winters. (I should
know, I have one in my basement.)
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> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
Will fit very nicely on my PC at work.
--
Francois Labreque | And a four year old carelessly banging on a toy
flabreq | piano is not only 'music', it's probably the last
@ | moment of 'artistic purity' they'll ever enjoy
attglobal.net | before outside influences start corrupting their
| expression. - Chris R.
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That's some render time. And a great looking image,
I think that this is what the blade of a combine
harvister may look like from the inside.
Great looking image, what is it?
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:07pm up 2 days, 13:34, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 1.06, 1.02
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It makes toothpicks..?
Nice image!
Source would be good. :)
ian
Steven Pigeon wrote in message <39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca>...
>If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
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The super-cooled core of a graphics processor capable of rendering POV scenes
like this at 60 frames per second. :)
Jay
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It's a Flux Capacitor, for something larger than a Delorian.
:)
C.J. - POV User
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
> University of Montreal.
> pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
> pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
> ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
> and wavelets.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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In article <39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca>, Steven Pigeon
<pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote:
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It looks surprisingly similar to my idea of a large-scale, high thrust
ion/plasma drive engine which would be used for travel between stars. It
would also double as a fusion reactor...
Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
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Chris Huff wrote:
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> Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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Ah! Another David Brin reader! I really wish he'd write another story
based in the world of 'The Practice Effect'. That's one of my all time
favourites.
Wouldn't it be nice to practice your computer up to something a little
better, like a Cray. The more you use it, the better it gets :-)
Oh well, back to the mundane world ...
Bye for now,
Mike Andrews.
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Chris Huff wrote:
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> Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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If "SunDiver ship" is a beer I would agree ;-)
Karl
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> Comments?
I like it a lot.. I really like the texture on the glowing tube things.
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
My guess:
I think it was an early design or Denver International Airport (before they
decided on Kevlar tent things). This design was rejected because people
could STILL find there way around.
A friend of mine thinks it's the spaceship from the T.V. Series, "V".
-autowitch
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