Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote in article
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> Scott Hill (sco### [at] ddlinkscouk) wrote:
> : 	Hmm, nice, but WHY???
> 
>   Just for fun.
>   If you read the thread called "a scene file..." (or something like
that)
> you'll see why. The include file is pretty useless (due to the long
> parsing times), but fun to make. I made it just because the mandelbrot
> made of spheres -file I posted in that thread was so exalted by many
people :)
>   Well, if all the replies to this article are so discouraging I'll never
> improve the include file and it will never be anything :(
>   Not everything have to be useful. Sometimes you make something just for
> fun. I think it's pretty exciting to make a 100% pure povray file which
> calculates something nice, which you usually calculate with some other
> program (like fractint). I think that a scene with hundreds of thousands
> of spheres that make a mandelbrot landscape with only a 20 lines pov-file
> is outstanding :)
> 

	Sorry, It wasn't meant to sound quite so negative as it did. I really do
like the mandlebrot made out of spheres, I've even considered doing
something similar myself, I just didn't see the point in doing a triangle
mesh version as well, when a height field is so much simpler.

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Nieminen Mika (war### [at] cctutfi) wrote:
: I think that a scene with hundreds of thousands
: of spheres that make a mandelbrot landscape with only a 20 lines pov-file
: is outstanding :)

  I was wondering how small can I make the mandelbrot sphere heightfield.

camera{location<-2,3,-2>look_at 0}light_source{<9,9,-9>1}#declare Z=-1#while(Z
<1)#declare X=-2#while(X<1)#declare r=X#declare i=Z#declare n=0#while(n<1&r*r
+i*i<4)#declare a=2*r*i+Z#declare r=r*r-i*i+X#declare i=a#declare n=n+.05#end
sphere{<X,n,Z>.02pigment{rgb<n,n,0>}}#declare X=X+.02#end#declare Z=Z+.02#end

  4 lines. Not bad...
  I really like the povray description language :)

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