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From: Shay
Subject: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 14:09:09
Message: <3eb2b445@news.povray.org>
I promise. I'm not going to reuse the same model in a thousand posts,
but I rendered this pic to answer a question from Tek, and thought it
was interesting enough to post as an example of how the rap against
hand-coding ( too many hard edges, no uv mapping ) isn't necessarily
true. Of course, the uv mapping can't be seen here because there are no
maps applied. There are, however, four types of edges here, not just
smooth and flat.

So, Tek, what do you think? Structurally sound?

 -Shay


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 14:28:14
Message: <3eb2b8be@news.povray.org>
"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message
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I just wanted to add that I ask everyone to remember that this section
was *not* modeled to be seen from so close a distance. After rendering
this pic, I saw a lot of "issues" which weren't noticeable at the
intended scale.

 -Shay


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 15:10:05
Message: <3eb2c28d@news.povray.org>
"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message news:3eb2b445@news.povray.org...
> I promise. I'm not going to reuse the same model in a thousand posts,
> but I rendered this pic to answer a question from Tek, and thought it
> was interesting enough to post as an example of how the rap against
> hand-coding ( too many hard edges, no uv mapping ) isn't necessarily
> true. Of course, the uv mapping can't be seen here because there are no
> maps applied. There are, however, four types of edges here, not just
> smooth and flat.

Wow, how did you get smooth edges on everything?

> So, Tek, what do you think? Structurally sound?

I dunno, but it's sure nice to look at :)
I'm very impressed that each recursion seems to line up with the last, even
though they keep getting gradually bigger towards the bottom. That must be
pretty hard to do.

--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Slime
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 15:22:08
Message: <3eb2c560$1@news.povray.org>
This is CSG?

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 15:43:34
Message: <3eb2ca66$1@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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|
| Wow, how did you get smooth edges on everything?

I just put triangles in a curve. I also used different types types of
normal calcululations in different types of situations. This gave me
cleaner looking curves than I might have gotten using only the averaging
method.

|
| I'm very impressed that each recursion seems to line
| up with the last, even though they keep getting gradually
| bigger towards the bottom. That must be pretty hard to do.

SEEMS TO?!??! .....Just kidding. Yes, the recursions are skewed,
twisted, and scaled to fit the curve.

 -Shay


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 15:47:34
Message: <3eb2cb56@news.povray.org>
"Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message
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| This is CSG?
|

No, this is a mesh, but it is completely SDL generated.

I'm not sure if this could be accomplished with csg, as everything is
bent to fit the curve, and the curve does not conform to any type of
scaled circle. Also, the textures ( not shown ) really need uv mapping
to fit correctly to the object.

 -Shay


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From: Apache
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 19:35:23
Message: <3eb300bb@news.povray.org>
> to answer a question from Tek
And what would his question be?


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 2 May 2003 23:49:56
Message: <3eb33c64$1@news.povray.org>
"Apache" <apa### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> > to answer a question from Tek
> And what would his question be?

"Is it at all structurally sound, or is it just a while loop of pure fantasy?"
(asked in response to his earlier posting).

What I was really wondering was if he'd lined up all the repetitions properly so
they met up neatly with each other, despite following a rather complicated
curve, but I can see from this close-up that they do!

--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: detail of support
Date: 5 May 2003 10:03:01
Message: <3eb66f15@news.povray.org>
"Apache" <apa### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| > to answer a question from Tek
| And what would his question be?
|

A few thousand lines of code went into the picture, and *this* is what
intriuges you?

 -Shay


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