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From: Stephen
Date: 18 Dec 2013 05:50:00
Message: <web.52b17dacdff44c0f7d8c6e9c0@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 17-12-2013 17:09, Stephen wrote:
> > Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> >> I went back to the drawing board and took up TomTree more seriously with
> >> the Docs at hand. The result is here, in a fair weather view of the
> >> scene, and the stone pines as I intended them.
> >>
> >
> > Ah! so that is what the waves in the road were.
> > To me the original image looks as if the road is flooding.
>
> You are not wrong. When it rains, the tracks flood indeed with water
> puddles. :-)
>

The macro is forming waves in the high spots, though.
Would it be possible to run the macro with different settings dependent on the
slope of the ground?



> >
> > I think that if you wrote a tutorial, it would be much appreciated.
> > In your own time of course. :-)
> >
>
> Not a bad suggestion maybe. I guess there are many who do like me: just
> mess around without reading the available documentation properly ;-)
>

I just read enough to get these things to work.  :-)


> I think I could do some additional writing to the documentation written
> by Tom Aust, and some shell about it to link the tomtree macro more
> comprehensively to POV-Tree and in a more useful way.
>
> I'll have to see the boss about my own time... ;-)
>

Of course. ;-)


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