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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Ruined place
Date: 2 Feb 2008 05:18:15
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OK. Just a little try out of a ruined and "mossy" place.

Thomas


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From: Jim Holsenback
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 2 Feb 2008 07:30:55
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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote in message 
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> OK. Just a little try out of a ruined and "mossy" place.
>

the moss in the horizontal plane looks pretty good, but the vertical plane 
(collumns) seems to lack some depth.

using a layered texture map?

Jim


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 2 Feb 2008 10:40:26
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"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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>
> "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote in message 
> news:47a44367@news.povray.org...
>> OK. Just a little try out of a ruined and "mossy" place.
>>
>
> the moss in the horizontal plane looks pretty good, but the vertical plane 
> (collumns) seems to lack some depth.
>
> using a layered texture map?
>

Yes, it is a layered texture map. I am still experimenting with this as I am 
far from happy with the results. In first instance, this was not intended to 
be viewed from close up, but this has now to be changed.

Thomas


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 2 Feb 2008 10:50:57
Message: <47a49161$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:
> OK. Just a little try out of a ruined and "mossy" place.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
Cool.  Some promise, but I think when you finally get what you want you 
will be some distance from this approach.  I don't think real moss 
growth would respect the structure of the stones much at all unless it 
would be to spread from the cracks or some other surface where it first 
takes root. From places that have more to do with sun or lack of, or 
water pockets? The interruptions where the stones are rotated just 
wouldn't happen much at all I don't think.  That is the 'creepy' part 
about organic growth.  It has no respect. It just crawls over 
everything.  Moss does seem to 'coagulate' into clumps though, so you 
have gotten some of its aspects with a procedural texture.  I am 
thinking just a plain old bozo pattern might work better.  The technique 
you have now, agate? suggests that the moss is responding perhaps to a 
certain mineral veined in the stone.  Maybe lichen would be more like 
that?  I am not much of a naturalist.


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 2 Feb 2008 13:10:50
Message: <47a4b22a$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Holsenback wrote:

> the moss in the horizontal plane looks pretty good, but the vertical plane 
> (collumns) seems to lack some depth.

I think that is because the depth comes from a normal map,
and the vertical parts happen to be in the shadow. Maybe it
would help to use a fill light instead of ambient light?


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 3 Feb 2008 03:45:02
Message: <47a57f0e@news.povray.org>
"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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>>
> Cool.  Some promise, but I think when you finally get what you want you 
> will be some distance from this approach.  I don't think real moss growth 
> would respect the structure of the stones much at all unless it would be 
> to spread from the cracks or some other surface where it first takes root. 
> From places that have more to do with sun or lack of, or water pockets? 
> The interruptions where the stones are rotated just wouldn't happen much 
> at all I don't think.  That is the 'creepy' part about organic growth.  It 
> has no respect. It just crawls over everything.  Moss does seem to 
> 'coagulate' into clumps though, so you have gotten some of its aspects 
> with a procedural texture.  I am thinking just a plain old bozo pattern 
> might work better.  The technique you have now, agate? suggests that the 
> moss is responding perhaps to a certain mineral veined in the stone. 
> Maybe lichen would be more like that?  I am not much of a naturalist.

yeah.... :-(  you are absolutely right, Jim. This first quick and dirty 
approach is not leading anywhere. My first objective was to get a decent 
distribution of broken columns, which at least seems satisfying.

I wondered if I could get something decent with this (agate) pattern. Bozo 
might work better indeed, in combination maybe with boxed, to take the seams 
into account. Which reminds me that I also wanted to experiment here with 
your excellent Stained Stones macro. That will be another path to explore 
more fully.

Thomas


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 3 Feb 2008 03:48:47
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"Christian Froeschlin" <chr### [at] chrfrde> schreef in bericht 
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> Jim Holsenback wrote:
>
>> the moss in the horizontal plane looks pretty good, but the vertical 
>> plane (collumns) seems to lack some depth.
>
> I think that is because the depth comes from a normal map,
> and the vertical parts happen to be in the shadow. Maybe it
> would help to use a fill light instead of ambient light?

Yes, that is the problem here. This image was rendered with radiosity, so 
indeed the shadows appear flatter. However, overall, I am not really happy 
with this texture.

Thomas


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 3 Feb 2008 08:07:22
Message: <47a5bc8a@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:


> I wondered if I could get something decent with this (agate) pattern. Bozo 
> might work better indeed, in combination maybe with boxed, to take the seams 
> into account. Which reminds me that I also wanted to experiment here with 
> your excellent Stained Stones macro. That will be another path to explore 
> more fully.
> 
> 
I also put some time into a 'dribbles' effect, you know tracing a path 
of trickles of liquid, responding to surface normals to deflect the 
flow.  It stalled because of artifacting in the blob components I was 
applying but maybe I'll go back to it.  Combined with the 'object' 
pattern it might be usable for what you are doing or similar.  I was 
using it to put 'ritual materials' onto my African fetish objects.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Ruined place
Date: 3 Feb 2008 08:44:47
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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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>>
> I also put some time into a 'dribbles' effect, you know tracing a path of 
> trickles of liquid, responding to surface normals to deflect the flow.  It 
> stalled because of artifacting in the blob components I was applying but 
> maybe I'll go back to it.  Combined with the 'object' pattern it might be 
> usable for what you are doing or similar.  I was using it to put 'ritual 
> materials' onto my African fetish objects.

I remember that. It looked quite impressive already. In a different context, 
that is something that I am interested in too.

Thomas


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