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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 14:41:20
Message: <3F8AF1B8.7020502@hotmail.com>
As my mind wanders, so do my experiments. I've been meaning to do 
something like this for quite a while, but just never did.

The scene contains three separate isosurfaces which make up the bark of 
the stump. Since the functions for them involved blobbing and surface 
displacement, I found it expedient to optimise the calculations a little 
by adjusting their individual bounding boxes.

The heartwood is simply made of cylinders.

Lighting is nothing too special, just two light_sources; one a cruddy 
area_light.

Comments, questions?

-- 
Samuel Benge

stb### [at] hotmailcom


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From: ABX
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 15:01:25
Message: <3ftlovcp6pkqekvmghnvvnfo8f1i3au6r1@4ax.com>
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:40:56 -0700, Samuel Benge <sbe### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
> The heartwood is simply made of cylinders.

Why not isowood ? :-)

> Comments, questions?

Interesting, I'm looking forward for whole forest.

ABX


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From: Jeremy M  Praay
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 15:27:54
Message: <3f8afcba$1@news.povray.org>
Except for the color, it looks very much like red-pine to me.  Very nice.
I've often thought about making a red-pine forest scene.  But then I have
lots of ideas that I never seem to have time to implement... :-(

Cristoph Hormann had a similar stump a month or two ago as well.  I'm
looking forward to seeing more examples from both of you.  Are you using any
of Christoph's libraries?  isowood, isocsg, etc.  If not, they may simplify
some coding.  Personally, I find isosurfaces extremely difficult to deal
with otherwise.

Keep up the good work!

-- 
Jeremy
"Samuel Benge" <sbe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3F8### [at] hotmailcom...
> As my mind wanders, so do my experiments. I've been meaning to do
> something like this for quite a while, but just never did.
>
> The scene contains three separate isosurfaces which make up the bark of
> the stump. Since the functions for them involved blobbing and surface
> displacement, I found it expedient to optimise the calculations a little
> by adjusting their individual bounding boxes.
>
> The heartwood is simply made of cylinders.
>
> Lighting is nothing too special, just two light_sources; one a cruddy
> area_light.
>
> Comments, questions?
>
> -- 
> Samuel Benge
>
> stb### [at] hotmailcom
>


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 16:02:02
Message: <tdcr51-uii.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Samuel Benge wrote:
> As my mind wanders, so do my experiments. I've been meaning to do 
> something like this for quite a while, but just never did.
> 
> The scene contains three separate isosurfaces which make up the bark of 
> the stump. Since the functions for them involved blobbing and surface 
> displacement, I found it expedient to optimise the calculations a little 
> by adjusting their individual bounding boxes.

Nice.  You know i tried something similar some time ago:

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/%7Ey0013390/pov/pict/stump.jpg


Christoph

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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 16:16:38
Message: <3F8B0823.7070507@hotmail.com>
Hey, I think I like yours better :) The tree in yours is like a cedar, 
wheras mine is a bit more piney. Your wood is more substantial, too. I 
can almost feel it's roughness.

The flowers and grass are very nice indeed.

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 
> Nice.  You know i tried something similar some time ago:
> 
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/%7Ey0013390/pov/pict/stump.jpg
> 
> 
> Christoph
> 


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Samuel Benge

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 17:02:02
Message: <k8gr51-p6p.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Samuel Benge wrote:
> Hey, I think I like yours better :) The tree in yours is like a cedar, 
> wheras mine is a bit more piney. Your wood is more substantial, too. I 
> can almost feel it's roughness.

But your bark pattern looks very nice although i have the impression it 
does not follow the transit to the roots.

> The flowers and grass are very nice indeed.

Thanks.

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From: Renderdog
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 13 Oct 2003 17:45:02
Message: <web.3f8b1b6860cd59b1bc08df100@news.povray.org>
Both look great, an evergreen and a deciduous. Now an iso-(ex)-forest
can be created!

Looking at the pine tree out my window, the bark looks a little skinnier
than this one, but that could just be the species. Also the bark seems
to "cup" out a bit at the bottom edges. So many different types, this
could be spot-on for all I know.

Wonderful work. I love isosurfaces; powerful and fun.


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From: Frank
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 14 Oct 2003 10:50:02
Message: <web.3f8c0bce60cd59b1606ff9980@news.povray.org>
That looks really great.  What did you use for the grass and flowers?  The
stump wood is also quite nice.

Frank

>Nice.  You know i tried something similar some time ago:
>
>http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/%7Ey0013390/pov/pict/stump.jpg
>
>
>Christoph


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From: Mick Hazelgrove
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 14 Oct 2003 11:40:59
Message: <3f8c190b@news.povray.org>
Impressive

Mick


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Isosurface Bark (47k jpeg)
Date: 14 Oct 2003 11:42:03
Message: <f1it51-5vh.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Frank wrote:
> That looks really great.  What did you use for the grass and flowers?  The
> stump wood is also quite nice.

Grass and flowers are meshes, you can find some more information on this 
image in the thread:

Subject: Tree Stump [190k]
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:18:08 +0200
From: Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images

Christoph

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