>Thomas de Groot  on date 26/02/2013 16.57 wrote:
> On 25-2-2013 9:58, Paolo Gibellini wrote:
>  > Ok. It _should_ be included in next release!
>  > Provided with the comments obviously.
>  > Paolo
>
> How about this?
>
> Just developed it today as a variant to my current modelling. Can be
> expanded.
>
> Thomas
As a city, I like it (perhaps it could be expanded by adding some 
openings to emulate windows and doors).
As a dump of your brain, it is in any case interesting...
;-)
Paolo

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On 27-2-2013 16:16, Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> As a city, I like it (perhaps it could be expanded by adding some
> openings to emulate windows and doors).

There is room for expansion of course, and I shall implement this also 
in Gancaloon proper.

> As a dump of your brain, it is in any case interesting...

Indeed. :-)

Thomas

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Nice, very interesting...

But I see two floating domes not affixed to a roof: one one the left side and
one just right of the middle...

Nevertheless, nice work.

Greetings
Karl

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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Finally: with some better control on intersecting terrace walls.

Nice work!  It looks so much like a city center in the Middle East somewhere,
very dense. And has that 'haphazard' look of decades of construction, one
building on top of the other, when building space it at a premium.

If this 'city builder' code is what you have in mind for contributing to
POV-Ray's include files, I vote YES.

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On 27-2-2013 21:43, Karl Anders wrote:
> Nice, very interesting...
>
> But I see two floating domes not affixed to a roof: one one the left side and
> one just right of the middle...

Good spotting! That is the result of an incomplete difference. The domes 
are not floating but partially cut off at their base. Easy to correct; 
however, that will result in incomplete domes. The consequence of this 
incremental city building.

>
> Nevertheless, nice work.

Thanks.

Thomas

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On 28-2-2013 6:36, Kenneth wrote:
> Nice work!  It looks so much like a city center in the Middle East somewhere,
> very dense. And has that 'haphazard' look of decades of construction, one
> building on top of the other, when building space it at a premium.

Thanks. That was indeed my intention. Quite by chance I saw a photograph 
of Ghadames in Libya in the National Geographic the other day, which 
looked much like this. You can also Google Earth to there to have a look ;-)

>
> If this 'city builder' code is what you have in mind for contributing to
> POV-Ray's include files, I vote YES.

Well, I wrote this code as an answer to Paolo, just for fun really, and 
because I suddenly I got an idea about how to solve a long-standing 
puzzle for me. However, if the POV bosses above us feel inclined to add 
this to the scenes collection, I can prepare a proper file with some 
additional comments. In any case, I shall put a copy of this version in 
p.b.s-f as soon as I have cleaned things a bit up.

Thomas

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Am 28.02.2013 08:58, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> On 27-2-2013 21:43, Karl Anders wrote:
>> Nice, very interesting...
>>
>> But I see two floating domes not affixed to a roof: one one the left
>> side and
>> one just right of the middle...
>
> Good spotting! That is the result of an incomplete difference. The domes
> are not floating but partially cut off at their base. Easy to correct;
> however, that will result in incomplete domes. The consequence of this
> incremental city building.

Collect the domes separately, maybe?

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On 28-2-2013 9:17, clipka wrote:
> Collect the domes separately, maybe?
>

Yes, I suppose so. Presently the domes are selected during the iteration 
process and thus can be cut off during a later iteration.

I could collect the domes separately by writing their position to file 
during the iteration process, however the same problem would occur if 
the underlying building has been partly differenced in the mean time...

Not sure how to solve that...

I am putting a sample file in p.b.s-f

Thomas

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On 28-2-2013 10:18, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Not sure how to solve that...

I have found an elegant solution by extending the dome with a cylinder 
and writing/reading the dome location and scale data.

A new scene version is to be found in p.b.s-f

Thomas

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This shows the latest version.

Thomas

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