Remco de Korte wrote:

>BTW I've seen these in bloom (?). The flowers can get a couple of
>meters high and as far as I know they only get flowers once in every
>fourteen years or so (and then die?).
>So, here's some more trivia to correct me on ;)
>

That would be an Agave,
the plant that Tequila
is made of.

Ingo

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In article <3A336985.941FEE35@onwijs.com>, Remco de Korte 
<rem### [at] onwijscom> wrote:

> I believe here we would call this aloe or something like that.

Aloe Vera. There are similarities, they are both succulents with pointed 
leaves, but aloe leaves are less pointy, have little soft spikes on 
their edges, and their leaves are always opposite each other in a single 
plane, not in a radial formation like this. This texture is just right 
for aloe, though.

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> >
> > Ugh. Curling? Those leaves are CSG... ^^;
> 
> I see, if it's a simple CSG like cones/cylinders try doing it as an
> isosurface and distort it.

I thought about that. Haven't tried it yet, though.

> > I don't know what kind of flower I'll give this thing; that's a project
> > for another day.
> 
>
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Liliopsida/Agavaceae/Yucca/

Hmm, thanks. I'll have a look.

-Xplo

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ingo wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> >BTW I've seen these in bloom (?). The flowers can get a couple of
> >meters high and as far as I know they only get flowers once in every
> >fourteen years or so (and then die?).
> >So, here's some more trivia to correct me on ;)
> 
> That would be an Agave,
> the plant that Tequila
> is made of.

I had something like that near where I lived when I was young, and in
fact I was even there to see it bloom. (I don't remember if it died
afterwards.. it doesn't seem like it did.) We called it a "century
plant". I have no idea if that was an agave or not, but it wasn't a
yucca.. the leaves were much different.

-Xplo

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Xplo Eristotle wrote:

>We called it a "century plant".

That's an agave.

Ingo

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Right! That's the one.
Typical...
All I can see here are onion and potato plants and other swamp flora...

Remco

It's like this: you're on a small island with two doors...
;)

ingo wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> >BTW I've seen these in bloom (?). The flowers can get a couple of
> >meters high and as far as I know they only get flowers once in every
> >fourteen years or so (and then die?).
> >So, here's some more trivia to correct me on ;)
> >
> 
> That would be an Agave,
> the plant that Tequila
> is made of.
> 
> Ingo
> 
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Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <3A336985.941FEE35@onwijs.com>, Remco de Korte
> <rem### [at] onwijscom> wrote:
> 
> > I believe here we would call this aloe or something like that.
> 
> Aloe Vera. There are similarities, they are both succulents with pointed
> leaves, but aloe leaves are less pointy, have little soft spikes on
> their edges, and their leaves are always opposite each other in a single
> plane, not in a radial formation like this. This texture is just right
> for aloe, though.
> 
> --
> Christopher James Huff
> Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
> TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
> 
> <><

You're right of course. I mixed up a couple of things obviously.
As far a I know, most Yucca's you'll find here are growing indoors, the leaves
are thinner and the grow on stems (right word?). Or am I mixing things up yet
again?

Remco

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Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
> Just something I've been playing around with. This isn't meant to
> perfectly emulate any specific kind of plant, though it does rather
> resemble yucca. I'll probably make this into a real scene eventually.

	Given all the succulents in the world, that has to be a dead ringer for
one of them. Oddly realistic and not at the same time. 

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Xplo Eristotle wrote:

> Just something I've been playing around with. This isn't meant to
> perfectly emulate any specific kind of plant, though it does rather
> resemble yucca. I'll probably make this into a real scene eventually.

I like cacti and succulents, have a little pot (more like dish or platter) of
six of 'em in my room :)

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David Fontaine wrote:
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> Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
> > Just something I've been playing around with. This isn't meant to
> > perfectly emulate any specific kind of plant, though it does rather
> > resemble yucca. I'll probably make this into a real scene eventually.
> 
> I like cacti and succulents, have a little pot (more like dish or platter) of
> six of 'em in my room :)

	I used to have a little one in a pot velcroed to the top of my car's
dashboard. It lived for years on coffee dregs and an occassional bit of
coke. And the looks it would get were worth every penny of the $2 it
cost. If I could have managed a camera I would have a great collection
of pedestrian double-takes at crosswalks. 

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