On Tue, 15 May 2001 19:07:22 -0600, Tony[B] wrote:
>Well, here it is, after 2 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds. It uses
>50 samples for the focal blur, besides the photons and the heavy
>max_trace_level, and the machine was being used for other things, so I think
>that time is justified. This was meant to be a quick test-render for the
>final version, but I think it still needs work. It doesn't look much like
>the other one. Still needs a lot of tweaking. I think I'll be faking the
>focal blur with a post_process, among other things. I was wondering if
>anyone can tell me how you would do the pointy triangles of the crown. I
>think making it out of a couple thousand (<17k) spheres in a blob {} is a
>bad idea, isn't it? :\ Maybe an isosurface can do this just as well, or some
>fancy CSG. We'll see. Thanks in advance for all comments and suggestions. :)

Blobs can have negative components you know.  Imagine how you'd make a circular
ashtray with CSG, a cylinder with the center taken out, and the a cylinder going
from left to right and one going from front to back, now use the same idea but
as a blob, one cylinder with all others negative, make the cut-out cylinders a 
bit short so they don't go over the edge, and you get a nice smooth flowing 
object.  

I hope some of that made some sence. 

I'm going to be doing a chess set for the blind when I've got all my current 
"non pov", projects out of the way. 

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