I'd love to see more ferns! In fact I'm kind of disappointed that the folks
are not working on spline trees in pov and stuff like that ;-)

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Nice. When will we get to see other plant-types.

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> Nice. When will we get to see other plant-types.

When the fern is finished. But when is it finished...? I never know. Maybe I
should suspend it for a while and build other plants meanwhile. Would
improve the macros, too (I guess)

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SY

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> I'd love to see more ferns! In fact I'm kind of disappointed that the
folks
> are not working on spline trees in pov and stuff like that ;-)

You have been heard ;-)
There is no danger that I will spam the group with fern pics.... due to the
scary processing time :-O

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SY

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:00:01 +0100, "Apache" <apa### [at] yahoocom>
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>In fact I'm kind of disappointed that the folks
> are not working on spline trees in pov and stuff like that ;-)

who said not ?

ABX

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Will your set of macros be able of simulating wind and gravity and things
like that?

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I'm talking about all those people who aren't ;-)

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> 
> [...]
> 
> This set of macros (I call it for now a "plant-creation toolkit") can be
> used to create plants in general. I know there are a lot of macros available
> to create trees, grass or similar. However, I like to WRITE the code and
> MODEL manually rather than just USING macros or using some 2nd, 3rd or 4th
> party products. You may call me crazy ;-)

No, but if you want others to use your toolkit too you should take care of
making it easy to use and write some documentation, if people need to dig
through the whole code to customize the parameters there won't be many who
will use it.

And even if you write things yourself it's often useful to have a look at
similar tools that have previously been made.

Christoph

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wrote:
> do you remember the fern I posted some weeks ago?

Yes

> I like to WRITE the code and
> MODEL manually rather than just USING macros

perhaps you can be interested in
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

ABX

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> Will your set of macros be able of simulating wind and gravity and things
> like that?

Huh! No. (Not yet?)
Parsing time is 1 1/2 h on a 500MHz PIII. This is the PC I (illegally) used
in my office. At home I have a PRE-MMX Pentium 200Mhz.... I guesstimate
(according to previous rendering comparisons) that parsing time would be at
least 5-8 hours. Each frame... All is done in POV macros no external
programs. I once thought about porting to Delphi but this would cut my
chances of developing the code to 1/3. Simply undoable. It is just a set of
handy (plant-related) tools. Not a simulation prog.

However, beside the parsing time it would be rather easy to implement. At
least a "fake" simulation and not really a fully computed one. Manipulating
the stem(s) and the arrangement of the leaves is very easy and modular. But
I could never try it out! .-)

regards
SY

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