"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Thanks to the feedback from my earlier post, I noticed that I was ONLY
> dithering the individual blades of the reeds and not the whole cattail. Just
> before I place each cattail I used a while loop until the product of rand
> and a scaling factor produced a number within a specified range, then used
> another while loop to produce a random tilt factor used to make it look like
> a slight on shore breeze was pushing the reeds. It's given the scene a less
> sterile appearance .... I keep falling into the trap of having everything
> lined up just so.

Yes, the improvement is quite noticeable, although i think it would look
even better with *slightly* less randomness.  The clouds are also subtly,
but noticeably improved, and the ground fog looks much better.

The cattails are just begging for radiosity.  Have you considered that?

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