> Thanks for the patch, I'm especialy facinated with the sythese and
> ofcourse I want always more. Would it be possible to use that kind of
> algorithem in 3D-space? Randomly picking small cubes from a unit cube
> and build a new pattern from there, in SDL something like:

the current synthese algorithm needs to build the entire new image_map before
using it, You have to tell you want a 500x500 new image, it computes it, and
then uses it. This algorithm can't find a value at a random (x,y) point
directly. (And the construction is quite slow so if you want to use it it's
better to create the image, save it, and use it as a normal image_map)
so in 3D it would be possible but the result would be pre-computed values on a
3D grid (voxels) of a given size

> p.s. Good documentation!

thanks, i writed it in docbook xml format and used some modified .xsl to try
to match the povray documentation :)

> Would have been even nicer if it was in dutch ;)

:))

M

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Mael wrote:
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> [...]
> 
> i'm still doing some experimentations with the code, but may be later i will
> try to compile a version for linux
> you can download the modified sources here
> http://195.221.122.126/tmp/sources08.zip
> (if you're not too afraid to look at my ugly code :)

Thanks, that should be perfectly sufficient, no need for a compiled
version, like most linux users i prefer doing my own compile anyway.

BTW, what's 'BRDF_PATCH', is it not in the compiled windows version or is
it just not documented yet?

Christoph

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Mael wrote:
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> [...]
> 
> thanks, i writed it in docbook xml format and used some modified .xsl to try
> to match the povray documentation :)

Sounds interesting and might be suited for a general patch documentation
system (i suppose it does not require tools that are not freely
available).

If you could write some short tutorial about the steps used to generate it
that would be great.

Christoph

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in news:3d6cd3b2$1@news.povray.org Mael wrote:

> so in 3D it would be possible but the result would be pre-computed
> values on a 3D grid (voxels) of a given size
> 

Was afraid that that would be the awnser,

Thanks,

Ingo

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> Thanks, that should be perfectly sufficient, no need for a compiled
> version, like most linux users i prefer doing my own compile anyway.
>
> BTW, what's 'BRDF_PATCH', is it not in the compiled windows version or is
> it just not documented yet?

it's not in the compiled windows version because it's a work in progress, i'm
doing some tests writing BRDF stuff (for anisotropic highlights for example,
or to give a local micro-geometry and computes the resulting BRDF) (it really
needs lot of work...)

M

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