"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > "P Brewer" <pbj### [at] wowwaycom> wrote:
> > > Very nice... I can't wait to see the final scene. Are you using straight
> > > isosurfaces?
> >
> > 100% meshes, macro-built in SDL. This rendered in 12 minutes on an ageing
> > Mac. It renders in under a minute without the radiosity... no way I could get
> > that performance out of isosurfaces!
>
> Hum... sounds like I should definitely give your macros a try for my bricks. I
> fancy it would also give me more freedom how to erode them. My own blob-based
> approach is rather limited in this respect.
>
> Do I need to start with an isosurface, or will any shape do?

Any shape whose surface is completely visible from the specified centre-point
(so make sure CSG is a merge!). It suffers a little from stretch artifacts for
long shapes, so I should probably try to improve the grid shape...

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