This is the result of a rather vivid dream one morning and a desire to play
with isosurfaces.

I still need to add some distant mountains and some kind
of statue buried in the ice, and I want to make the fence
look a little less human. (This is supposed to be an alien
planet).


The waterfall had always flowed. There was never a recorded time
when the water did not cascade over the crystal cliffs. The ancient
books told that one of the signs of the end of time would be the lack of
flowing water over the cliffs. The years passed and the suns cooled.
Every winter the flow of water was less and less. Many took this
as a sign and left for other planets. The disbelievers remained.
One winter the waterfall froze completely. It was the beginning of the end.
Winter was longer each year, summer colder. Within a very short time
the ice age had come again.

Comments?

Gail
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In article <3a9bf4be@news.povray.org>, Gail Shaw says...
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> The waterfall had always flowed. There was never a recorded time
> when the water did not cascade over the crystal cliffs. The ancient
> books told that one of the signs of the end of time would be the lack of
> flowing water over the cliffs. The years passed and the suns cooled.
> Every winter the flow of water was less and less. Many took this
> as a sign and left for other planets. The disbelievers remained.
> One winter the waterfall froze completely. It was the beginning of the end.
> Winter was longer each year, summer colder. Within a very short time
> the ice age had come again.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Gail

Did you dream all this? Is it from a book? It's haunting. So is the 
image, be it that the colours are a bit uniform, and the ice-fall is not 
very clearly structured, and the rock wall is a bit uniform too...
Don't get this wrong: I like the idea very much, the day that I will see 
two suns or two moons I'll know I'm finished. It is something I do dream 
about every 3 years or so...  :-)
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> This is the result of a rather vivid dream one morning and a desire
> to play with isosurfaces.
> I still need to add some distant mountains and some kind
> of statue buried in the ice, and I want to make the fence
> look a little less human. (This is supposed to be an alien
> planet).

    This would be VERY nice if the waterfall was created as a
particle simulation of water droplets.  Would take a LONG time to
render, but would increase the picture immensly..

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Gail Shaw wrote:
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> [...]
> 
> Comments?
> 

Yes, it looks very nice, the ice, the lighting, ...
although the waterfall would probably not freeze that way as a whole, but
get a quite rough surface and be broader at the bottom.  

How did you do the suns?

Christoph

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In article <3a9bf4be@news.povray.org>, "Gail Shaw" 
<gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:

> I still need to add some distant mountains and some kind
> of statue buried in the ice, and I want to make the fence
> look a little less human. (This is supposed to be an alien
> planet).

The chain does look very out of place...and it should be encrusted with 
ice.

The waterfall needs some work, it should be a lot broader at the base, 
where trickling water would pour on the accumulated ice, and some finer 
detail would be nice. And the rock it is...er, was pouring over looks 
quite artificial, maybe make it more uneven, less like a rock wall. And 
maybe some snow...
You've managed to get it to look quite cold, though.

The suns and the city in the background look great, though.

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Christopher James Huff
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Sander <san### [at] stolscom> wrote in message
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> Did you dream all this? Is it from a book? It's haunting.

Dream

>So is the
> image, be it that the colours are a bit uniform, and the ice-fall is not
> very clearly structured, and the rock wall is a bit uniform too...

I went through so many variations on colour for the wall, Dark red, light
pink,
light blue and I like the current dark blue best. Maybe I'll try a subtle
bozo
instead of solid colour.

Rock wall is supposed to be a crystal cliff. Will work on the waterfall
after irtc deadline.

Gail
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Thomas Charron <tch### [at] ductapenet> wrote in message
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>     This would be VERY nice if the waterfall was created as a
> particle simulation of water droplets.  Would take a LONG time to
> render, but would increase the picture immensly..
>

Takes 13 hours already, but you've got me thinking. Hmmmm.........

Gail
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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Yes, it looks very nice, the ice, the lighting, ...
> although the waterfall would probably not freeze that way as a whole, but
> get a quite rough surface and be broader at the bottom.

Will play around with waterfalls after current irtc deadline. I'll
try and create it using the particle system instead of an isosurface.

> How did you do the suns?

Glows.

Gail
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Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> The chain does look very out of place...and it should be encrusted with
> ice.

Didn't think of ice. Any suggestions for a fence that doesn't look human?

> The waterfall needs some work, it should be a lot broader at the base,
> where trickling water would pour on the accumulated ice, and some finer
> detail would be nice. And the rock it is...er, was pouring over looks
> quite artificial, maybe make it more uneven, less like a rock wall. And
> maybe some snow...

The 'rock' is supposed to be a crystal cliff. I agree the waterfall isn't
perfect.
I'll have a go with a particle system or two. Can the results of one
particle
system be used in collision detection with another?

As for snow it's too cold to snow, but there might be some wind blown
powder. Maybe a couple more particle systems <wince>

> You've managed to get it to look quite cold, though.

Good.

> The suns and the city in the background look great, though.

Suns were created using glows and the city was modelled in Rhino.

Gail
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>Any suggestions for a fence that doesn't look human?
I've got an idea but I don't know how to describe it. If you took a spiral
and made the edges flat, instead of round. Almost like the protective
covering on some electrical stuf. I thinnk the easiest way to do it would be
to take a tube and then subtracta spira from it. The spiral should basically
have the same diametre as the tube. I like the posts.


> The 'rock' is supposed to be a crystal cliff.
Maybe if you made the crystal more transparent it would look more like
crystal.

Nekar Xenos aka Gerhard Oosthuizen

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