I thought I'd share this bit of a scene I am working on.  This is an 8k image
rendering of the parts of the scene I have mostly finished.  It is rendered with
some moderate radiosity, but still only took about 3 minutes.  (There is only
one light source at this point).

Again, mostly isosurface objects.  The scrabble board surface is just a bunch of
texture layers, including the wear patterns and stains.

Suggestions are welcome on where to go from here...

-- Chris R.

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On 11/19/24 17:28, Chris R wrote:
> Again, mostly isosurface objects.  The scrabble board surface is just a bunch of
> texture layers, including the wear patterns and stains.

Looks to me like a 'really' good start. :-)

How did you arrive at the particular words on the board?

Bill P.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 11/19/24 17:28, Chris R wrote:
> > Again, mostly isosurface objects.  The scrabble board surface is just a bunch of
> > texture layers, including the wear patterns and stains.
>
> Looks to me like a 'really' good start. :-)
>
> How did you arrive at the particular words on the board?
>
> Bill P.

After doing more hunting than I thought was going to be necessary, I found a
site with international Scrabble Championship results that included play-by-play
listings.  The posted scene is about halfway through the final from 2003.  I
wrote a bunch of SDL code to generate the board, rack contents, and scorepad
based on these playthroughs so I can render the scene at various points in
different games.

-- Chris R

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:51:48 EST, Chris R wrote:

> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> On 11/19/24 17:28, Chris R wrote:
>> > Again, mostly isosurface objects.  The scrabble board surface is just
>> > a bunch of texture layers, including the wear patterns and stains.
>>
>> Looks to me like a 'really' good start. :-)
>>
>> How did you arrive at the particular words on the board?
>>
>> Bill P.
> 
> After doing more hunting than I thought was going to be necessary, I
> found a site with international Scrabble Championship results that
> included play-by-play listings.  The posted scene is about halfway
> through the final from 2003.  I wrote a bunch of SDL code to generate
> the board, rack contents, and scorepad based on these playthroughs so I
> can render the scene at various points in different games.
> 
> -- Chris R

Interesting, I had wondered about a few of the words that showed up and 
which dictionary they came from - in particular, 'ee' and 'ny', neither of 
which appear in the official dictionary (at least not that I found).

I also was wondering what the play order was, but only got the first word 
(which was mostly easy since it had to include the center square).

Very cool image.



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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hi,

"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> ...
> wrote a bunch of SDL code to generate the board, rack contents, ...

beautiful.

(I've a bet with myself that you've modelled the board's turntable too :-))


regards, jr.

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