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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 21 Jun 2013 23:30:00
Message: <web.51c51918460f9f9691114470@news.povray.org>
Just playing around with the geology of basic loops and blocks, and thinking of
isosurfaces...


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From: s day
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 22 Jun 2013 03:40:01
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"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> Just playing around with the geology of basic loops and blocks, and thinking of
> isosurfaces...

Great image, I always love a scene that shows off radiosity and the quality of
this one is great. I like the texture on the blocks also, is it just a normal
texture or are you using SSLT (I have not played with SSLT yet but this looks
better than a standard texture to me).

Sean


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From: William F Pokorny
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 22 Jun 2013 08:49:42
Message: <51c59d66$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/21/2013 11:25 PM, Robert McGregor wrote:
> Just playing around with the geology of basic loops and blocks, and thinking of
> isosurfaces...
>
I like it.

What are the darker squares that looks like panels or something on two 
blocks just to the upper left of the image center?

Bill P.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 22 Jun 2013 09:55:02
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On 22/06/2013 1:49 PM, William F Pokorny wrote:
>
> What are the darker squares that looks like panels or something on two
> blocks just to the upper left of the image center?

Doors to Erewhon ;-)

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 22 Jun 2013 11:30:00
Message: <web.51c5c23ed4b80088898131a0@news.povray.org>
"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> Just playing around with the geology of basic loops and blocks, and thinking of
> isosurfaces...

Very nice.

"Luke, you've turned off your targeting computer! Whats wrong?"

kind of.


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From: s day
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 22 Jun 2013 11:45:01
Message: <web.51c5c621d4b800882d3d41bb0@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Very nice.
>
> "Luke, you've turned off your targeting computer! Whats wrong?"
>
> kind of.

I knew it reminded me of something.


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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 23 Jun 2013 22:15:01
Message: <web.51c7ab86d4b8008891114470@news.povray.org>
"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Great image, I always love a scene that shows off radiosity and the quality of
> this one is great. I like the texture on the blocks also, is it just a normal
> texture or are you using SSLT (I have not played with SSLT yet but this looks
> better than a standard texture to me).

Thanks Sean, yes the texture uses SSLT, which really smooths things out,
especially on the isosurface version I'm working on.

Here's a simple sky-emission-only (textureless & lightless) test render where
the superellipsoids are replaced with equivalent f_rounded_box isosurfaces
having a subtle granite/agate averaged displacement.

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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Re: Grids of Superellipsoids
Date: 23 Jun 2013 22:25:00
Message: <web.51c7ad10d4b8008891114470@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 06/21/2013 11:25 PM, Robert McGregor wrote:
> > Just playing around with the geology of basic loops and blocks, and thinking of
> > isosurfaces...
> >
> I like it.
>
> What are the darker squares that looks like panels or something on two
> blocks just to the upper left of the image center?
>
> Bill P.

Bill, thanks for pointing those out - I hadn't really noticed them before. After
some head-scratching and test-rendering the scene at 5000px wide (with just that
small section selected for render) I finally isolated those as being some sort
of SSLT artifacts, but I can't really tell where they're actually coming from...
so, yeah, like Stephen said, they're  obviously "Doors to Erewhon".

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