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From: Ken
Subject: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 01:58:21
Message: <3A0A4B27.91D4E72E@pacbell.net>
Greeting Povlings,

A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. Thanks to Tor
for the inspiration and a few pieces or coding examples to work
from.

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Ken Tyler


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From: Tony[B]
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 09:02:09
Message: <3a0aae61@news.povray.org>
Hey, guys, look! Ken posted something! And it looks cool! I'm marking this
day on my calendar...


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 09:37:41
Message: <3A0AB6B5.45A2C929@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Greeting Povlings,
> 
> A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. Thanks to Tor
> for the inspiration and a few pieces or coding examples to work
> from.
> 

Oh, please don't tell us your rendering times, we all have to sit hours in front
of a hard working machine for such a thing and you just ... ;-)

Nice picture BTW.

Christoph

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 10:18:40
Message: <3A0AC0B0.34847CC2@pacbell.net>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > Greeting Povlings,
> >
> > A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. Thanks to Tor
> > for the inspiration and a few pieces or coding examples to work
> > from.
> >
> 
> Oh, please don't tell us your rendering times, we all have to sit hours in front
> of a hard working machine for such a thing and you just ... ;-)

Should I try it as glass w/photons ?
 
> Nice picture BTW.

Thanks.

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http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 12:03:13
Message: <3a0ad8d1@news.povray.org>
Most excellent, Ken! I am nearly green with envy!

Grim


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 15:22:29
Message: <3A0B0785.1B5283F8@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Should I try it as glass w/photons ?
> 

That would be great, but i suspect it would look somewhat chaotic.

Christoph

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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 16:22:07
Message: <chrishuff-4DF25B.16221209112000@news.povray.org>
In article <3A0A4B27.91D4E72E@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

> A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. Thanks to Tor
> for the inspiration and a few pieces or coding examples to work
> from.

Journey to the Center of the Earth?

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From: Xplo Eristotle
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 17:05:01
Message: <3A0B20AE.C5F29438@unforgettable.com>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Should I try it as glass w/photons ?

I wouldn't say so, no.. but some crystals scattered around might look
cool (with dispersion and all that fun stuff).

Of course, you'd have to do actual modeling for that. *horror!*

I wonder what this would look like with radiosity...

-Xplo


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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 18:13:26
Message: <3a0b2f96@news.povray.org>
"Xplo Eristotle" <inq### [at] unforgettablecom>
>
> Of course, you'd have to do actual modeling for that. *horror!*
>

 Not necessarily true...

Grim


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From: Margus Ramst
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 18:37:44
Message: <3A0B3567.583E3834@peak.edu.ee>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Greeting Povlings,
>

"Povlings"?! *snort*

> A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. Thanks to Tor
> for the inspiration and a few pieces or coding examples to work
> from.
> 

Interesting stuff, these iso-mazes. Good job on the lighting, gives it depth and
sort of a mysterious feel. Will the source be de-classified?

-- 
Margus Ramst

Personal e-mail: mar### [at] peakeduee
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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 20:10:38
Message: <3A0B4ABC.C53BBABB@online.no>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Greeting Povlings,
> 
> A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min.. 
>...

This is not fair !  Now I wish I didn't know your 
rendering time for this image. :(


I like the texture. How did you do that ?


I envy your possibilities to explore these worlds.


Regards,

Tor Olav
-- 
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http://www.crosswinds.net/~tok/tokrays.html


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From: David Fontaine
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 9 Nov 2000 22:43:58
Message: <3A0B6EA5.D9B80223@faricy.net>
Looks like some kind of revolting organic microscopy... :)

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:44:43
Message: <3A0E2EB5.9A8A1553@pacbell.net>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> > A little isofun. Render time a whopping 16 min..

> This is not fair !  Now I wish I didn't know your
> rendering time for this image. :(

I had a slow-assed P-200 until just a month ago. I feel for you.
 
> I like the texture. How did you do that ?

I used pretty much the same method you used except I specified
a granite piment pattern and then used multiple colered lights
to give the actual color to the scene.

object {
   Toroid_Noise
      pigment { granite
       color_map {
                   [0.0 rgb .35]
                   [0.5 rgb .50]
                   [.75 rgb .35]
                   [1.0 rgb .75]
                 }
                scale .5
               }
      normal { granite .25 scale .35}
  no_shadow
}
 
> I envy your possibilities to explore these worlds.

I envy your ability to understand isosurfaces and the math
behind them. I merely took your work and expanded upon it.


Have you tried feeding it a quilted pigment yet ? I have been
getting some interesting results using various slopes in the
pattern.

-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:48:25
Message: <3A0E2F93.C5084A1D@pacbell.net>
Margus Ramst wrote:

> Interesting stuff, these iso-mazes. Good job on the lighting, gives it depth and
> sort of a mysterious feel.

Thanks.

> Will the source be de-classified?

I based a good portion of this on Tor's toroidal iso-noise
source posted a while back. I then modified it to make it
my own. Unfortunately the original source for the image I
posted has since gone through serveral revisions and I doubt
I could recreate it if I wanted to. I am having way too much
fun with this stuff ! :)

-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 00:31:06
Message: <3A0F7C15.69110945@online.no>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>... 
> > I like the texture. How did you do that ?
> 
> I used pretty much the same method you used except I specified
> a granite piment pattern and then used multiple colered lights
> to give the actual color to the scene.
> 
> object {
>    Toroid_Noise
>       pigment { granite
>        color_map {
>                    [0.0 rgb .35]
>                    [0.5 rgb .50]
>                    [.75 rgb .35]
>                    [1.0 rgb .75]
>                  }
>                 scale .5
>                }
>       normal { granite .25 scale .35}
>   no_shadow
> }

Thank you Ken.


>...
> Have you tried feeding it a quilted pigment yet ? I have been
> getting some interesting results using various slopes in the
> pattern.

When I saw Greg M. Johnson's Cell city I thought that maybe
it was many pattern types that I hadn't seen yet.

So I browsed through the documentation and found the quilted
pattern, which I had never used before. I did a little test 
with this pattern as well, but I was to tired to actual read 
the documentation for this pattern. So the results that I got 
wasn't what I thought they would be.

But now I'm very interested to see what images came from 
your experiments with this pattern.


Tor Olav
-- 
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http://www.crosswinds.net/~tok/tokrays.html


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 01:14:09
Message: <3A0F871F.C6024E4@pacbell.net>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> When I saw Greg M. Johnson's Cell city I thought that maybe
> it was many pattern types that I hadn't seen yet.
> 
> So I browsed through the documentation and found the quilted
> pattern, which I had never used before. I did a little test
> with this pattern as well, but I was to tired to actual read
> the documentation for this pattern. So the results that I got
> wasn't what I thought they would be.

It was mainly designed for use in normal statements which
coincidentally makes it ideally suited for isosurface work :)
 
> But now I'm very interested to see what images came from
> your experiments with this pattern.

Ooops... I have been trying so many things, and not saving
them, that I really have no working examples to share with
you. Last night I started playing with patterned pigments
and isosufaces. Wheee.....

-- 
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http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 01:28:49
Message: <3a0f8a21$1@news.povray.org>
Now, Ken! I did suggest the anal approach after all. Every time you see a
cool result save your source under a new name. :)

Grim


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 02:29:33
Message: <3A0F98CC.BC753DBE@pacbell.net>
GrimDude wrote:
> 
> Now, Ken! I did suggest the anal approach after all. Every time you see a
> cool result save your source under a new name. :)

I have well over 1000 .pov and .inc files because of compulsive file
saving activities over the years. Sometimes it is just fun to throw
caution to the wind and....

-- 
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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 12:01:40
Message: <3a101e74@news.povray.org>
Ahem! Only 1000? I would guess that would make things tidy, but...

I'll do a global search real quick...

Well! I'm shocked! Only 29,987 files. I must be slipping... :)

Grim


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 15:23:18
Message: <slrn910j82.499.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:58:44 -0600, GrimDude wrote:
>Ahem! Only 1000? I would guess that would make things tidy, but...
>
>I'll do a global search real quick...
>
>Well! I'm shocked! Only 29,987 files. I must be slipping... :)

I bet that that's including the scene examples that come with
all the different versions of pov that you have on your machine:
You Americans just don't know how to count:-/

I get 150 not counting other peoples stuff off NGs and off the web 
and not counting all the demos that I've got with various patches
and versions of POV, and not counting any backups.  Before all of
thsi was taken into accout the figure was 939. 


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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 15:43:39
Message: <3a10527b@news.povray.org>
Nope, just my artwork drive. The samples and fellow artists' stuff I keep
with Pov on the primary drive. I lot of those are duplicates with minor
changes, but I have found time to cull irrelevant copies from time-to-time.

I take it that other comment was a dig at our political system. heh, at
least we have something to count. I forget who it was that said, "Democracy
is the worse form of government, except for all the others." Probably
misquoted (sigh).

Grim


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 16:42:35
Message: <chrishuff-946428.16424613112000@news.povray.org>
In article <3A0F98CC.BC753DBE@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

> I have well over 1000 .pov and .inc files because of compulsive file
> saving activities over the years. Sometimes it is just fun to throw
> caution to the wind and....

I've got 1423 .pov files, including MegaPOV demos, demos for my own 
patches, and the official demo scenes. A couple are actually parts of 
scenes, a few (especially isosurface files) have several different 
things in them that really should be in separate files...

-- 
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Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 16:46:41
Message: <3A1061B1.303DD4FB@pacbell.net>
Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <3A0F98CC.BC753DBE@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg
> wrote:
> 
> > I have well over 1000 .pov and .inc files because of compulsive file
> > saving activities over the years. Sometimes it is just fun to throw
> > caution to the wind and....
> 
> I've got 1423 .pov files, including MegaPOV demos, demos for my own
> patches, and the official demo scenes. A couple are actually parts of
> scenes, a few (especially isosurface files) have several different
> things in them that really should be in separate files...

I just got through with a manual recount and the number is now at
3434 - all of which are my own work and does not include example
scene files. I previously failed to count the files that I had
archived in .zip files. If I also included the images I have used
for HF's, bump maps, and image maps the numbers would be much
higher.

-- 
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http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: GrimDude
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 13 Nov 2000 23:24:01
Message: <3a10be61@news.povray.org>
Nope, I'm not gonna recount (even though Ken brought up an excellent point -
archives). (grin)

Grim


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 15 Nov 2000 09:06:25
Message: <slrn91427o.b7v.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:45:46 -0600, GrimDude wrote:
>Nope, just my artwork drive. The samples and fellow artists' stuff I keep
>with Pov on the primary drive. I lot of those are duplicates with minor
>changes, but I have found time to cull irrelevant copies from time-to-time.

That's some rendering going on there then. 


>
>I take it that other comment was a dig at our political system. heh, at
>least we have something to count. I forget who it was that said, "Democracy
>is the worse form of government, except for all the others." Probably
>misquoted (sigh).

:-)

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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: Down to Earth
Date: 17 Nov 2000 01:18:25
Message: <3a14cdb1@news.povray.org>
I've got 965 .pov files on my computer -- that includes all the demos that
came with the versions of POV that I've got, but doesn't include the .inc
files that I've created that are almost complete scenes in their own right.

--
Mark


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