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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:49:57 -0000, Tom Melly wrote:
>What I really like about POV is if the PHB walks by, it looks like you're
>working....
Flakes are simetrical so just make half a flake, then put two halves
together. That way you may get better results quicker, these look
nothing like the enlarged photos of snow flakes that I remember seeing
on Play School, but you seem to be going in the right direction.
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> Flakes are simetrical so just make half a flake, then put two halves
> together. That way you may get better results quicker, these look
> nothing like the enlarged photos of snow flakes that I remember seeing
> on Play School, but you seem to be going in the right direction.
Rotationally symmetric too, I shouldn't doubt. That would mean you
create a slice and then rotate it e.g. 6 times around.
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"Andrew" <ast### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3c11eb02@news.povray.org...
> > Flakes are simetrical so just make half a flake, then put two halves
> > together. That way you may get better results quicker, these look
> > nothing like the enlarged photos of snow flakes that I remember seeing
> > on Play School, but you seem to be going in the right direction.
>
> Rotationally symmetric too, I shouldn't doubt. That would mean you
> create a slice and then rotate it e.g. 6 times around.
http://www.jericho-underhill.com/bentley.htm
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"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
>
> Flakes are simetrical so just make half a flake, then put two halves
> together. That way you may get better results quicker, these look
> nothing like the enlarged photos of snow flakes that I remember seeing
> on Play School, but you seem to be going in the right direction.
>
Well, the parse time is fairly minimal. Not realistic, it's true - Lu just
wanted some snowflakes for the xmas card background. Still, in consequece, I've
taken a closer look at snowflakes and am wondering how to write a macro to
generate more complex, realistic flakes. Anyone got any basic advice?
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:44:22 -0000, Tom Melly wrote:
>Well, the parse time is fairly minimal. Not realistic, it's true - Lu just
>wanted some snowflakes for the xmas card background. Still, in consequece, I've
>taken a closer look at snowflakes and am wondering how to write a macro to
>generate more complex, realistic flakes. Anyone got any basic advice?
>
Ok if they're rotationally symetrical too then you make a polygon section
which is a sixth of the complete circle, then use one of those random
texture macros but using only colours clear and white. Next stage rotate
in a loop (5 times), then resize and place.
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:49:57 -0000, Tom Melly wrote:
>What I really like about POV is if the PHB walks by, it looks like you're
>working....
I've thought since that each of your six sections will also be symetrical
within itself, so you make half of one sixth, your triangle should look
like this:
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\ |
\ |
\ |
\|
So you apply your randon texture of white and clear to that section,
then double it up / flip it in a union so that you've now got a
symetrical sixth of the flake:
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\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\|/
V
Now rotate it in a union to get your full circle.
OK that's a copuple of hours of my day gone now, this works:
#include "colors.inc"
#version 3.1;
global_settings{
ambient_light 7
assumed_gamma 2.2
}
// ****** Basic objects, camera, plane, lights etc. ************************
camera{
location <0,5,-25>
look_at <0,3,0>
}
// ********************* Snowflake Macro ****************************
#macro Snow_Flake(Pig_Turb, Pig_Scale, Pig_Rotate)
#local Flake_Pig =
pigment{
agate
color_map{
[0.0 Clear ]
[0.5 Clear ]
[0.5 White ]
[1 White ]
}
turbulence Pig_Turb
rotate z*Pig_Rotate
scale Pig_Scale
}
#local Flake_Half_Section =
polygon{
4,
<-3.5,6>, <0,5>, <0,0>, <-3.5,6>
pigment{Flake_Pig}
}
#local Flake_Section =
union{
object{Flake_Half_Section}
object{Flake_Half_Section rotate y*180}
}
union{
object{Flake_Section}
object{Flake_Section rotate z*60}
object{Flake_Section rotate z*120}
object{Flake_Section rotate z*180}
object{Flake_Section rotate z*240}
object{Flake_Section rotate z*300}
}
#end
// ****************** Lay objects out for display **************
object{Snow_Flake(0.75, 0.75, 0) translate <-8,5,0>}
object{Snow_Flake(0.75, 0.75, 0) rotate z*30 scale 0.85 translate <-8,5,0>}
object{Snow_Flake(0.5, 0.5, 30) scale 0.75 translate <4,-2,0>}
object{Snow_Flake(0.14, 1, 30) scale 0.5 translate <5,7,0>}
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That looks really nice, and the concept you thought of was already pretty
good. Still it's only a 2D-Planar thingy.
Anybody up to do something 3D?
Tim
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:21:42 +0100, Tim Nikias wrote:
>That looks really nice, and the concept you thought of was already pretty
>good. Still it's only a 2D-Planar thingy.
>
>Anybody up to do something 3D?
I don't know if it's possible to declare an object as an iso surface function,
in which case you could make the 2d version and apply it to an iso sphere.
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I've got a little program that makes 3d snowflakes in dfx format.
I've been useing 3dwin to convert it to moray then pov, see atached image.
I think I got the program at http://avalon.viewpoint.com/ under the
utilities section
in the software area.
Gary
Tim Nikias <Tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> That looks really nice, and the concept you thought of was already pretty
> good. Still it's only a 2D-Planar thingy.
>
> Anybody up to do something 3D?
>
> Tim
>
>
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"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
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<snip>
Ooo, pretty. Many thanks - I shall play
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