The story:
I decided to do something *without* isosurfaces and *without* radiosity and
therefore played with some superquadric ellipsoids.  But of course i could not
resist trying out how it looks with radiosity - and it really was much better,
so ...  :-)

concerning isosurfaces - rendering time was already 4h30min ...

The textures were made using displace warps, I do not like the gray/blue one
right now, so it will probably be changed.

Comments, etc. welcome

Christoph


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Just in case you didn't know, which it seems you don't, isosurface
superellipsoids render faster than the real superellipsoid object in
POV-Ray... Nice image.

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Neat, I like it. Don't like the blue and grey one though. I wonder how it
would look with a chrome texture.

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Dan D.

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"Tony[B]" wrote:
> 
> Just in case you didn't know, which it seems you don't, isosurface
> superellipsoids render faster than the real superellipsoid object in
> POV-Ray... 

I know, and just checked it for this scene, it's about 25% faster here (without
radiosity), but I originally meant using isosurfaces with some pigment function
instead of the normal statement and that would be much slower anyway.  

> Nice image.

Thank You.

Christoph

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ddombrow wrote:
> 
> Neat, I like it. Don't like the blue and grey one though. I wonder how it
> would look with a chrome texture.
> 

Thanks, i thought of something metallic too, but i first have to build up
something behind the camera to have a nice reflection.

Christoph

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That's a good thought, maybe try throwing something unexpected into the
reflection.

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"Christoph Hormann" wrote in message...
> but i first have to build up something behind the camera >to have a nice
reflection.
>
> Christoph

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ddombrow wrote:
> 
> That's a good thought, maybe try throwing something unexpected into the
> reflection.

like a banana.

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Nice image, very different but attractive. I like the positioning and
apparent random nature of the SEs.

I would love to see the source for this.

ian

Christoph Hormann <Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> wrote in message
news:39E### [at] schunteretctu-bsde...
>
> The story:
> I decided to do something *without* isosurfaces and *without* radiosity
and
> therefore played with some superquadric ellipsoids.  But of course i could
not
> resist trying out how it looks with radiosity - and it really was much
better,
> so ...  :-)

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ian mcdonald wrote:
> 
> Nice image, very different but attractive. 

Thanks, but different form what ? :-)

> I like the positioning and apparent random nature of the SEs.
> 
> I would love to see the source for this.
> 

The positioning/randomizing is really not that difficult:

#macro Var_SQ()
superellipsoid { 
  <rand(RX)*0.99 + 0.01, rand(RY)*0.99 + 0.01>   
  material { 
    M_warped 
    translate <rand(RX), rand(RY), rand(RZ)>*10 
  }                      
}
#end  

union {  
  #declare CnY=0;  
  #while (CnY<60)   
    #declare CnX=0;  
    #while (CnX<60)   
      object { Var_SQ() translate <CnX, -CnY-2, -1> }
      #declare CnX=CnX+2;
    #end 
    #declare CnY=CnY+2;
  #end                    
} 

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ryan constantine wrote:
> 
> like a banana.

That's a funny idea, but i thought about sticking to superellipsoids.

Christoph

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