POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Pebbles : Re: Pebbles Server Time
1 Aug 2024 14:33:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pebbles  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 18 Sep 2008 11:55:01
Message: <web.48d27979a788d3fcd5b77e4a0@news.povray.org>
Jonathan Hunt <jon### [at] xlcuscom> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > Unless your code is particularly convoluted, I think it highly
> > unlikely that manual placement of the stones would be easier.
>
> Well, easier in the sense of trying to get them placed "Just right" from
> an artistic point of view.  I think I tried over 200 values for the
> starting value of the random seed before I settled on the placement you
> see in the final image! :-)

'Nuff said, I've been there! What the SDL needs is an eval_aesthetics() function
so you can automate seed hunting ;-)


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