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Re: Rendering Datsville with POV-Ray
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:12:33 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox325.swipnet.se> writes:
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> > For example, to replace all bricks, plates, and tiles with boxes
> > where it was possible, helped cutting down the POVray rendering
> > time with 63% in my pilot model. The disadvantage of this method is
> > that I had to manually decide what parts could be replaced. It
> > takes some time...
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> Perhaps you could do this automatically by applying the technique to
> every part for which the name only includes the words "brick", "plate"
> or "tile"? It must also include some kind of "2 x 4" notion, but if
> it does not contain anything else, it is probably prone to
> simplifying.
I didn't realize that simplifying could be so complicated. :o)
I have already made a program that suggests all bricks, plates, and tiles to
be replaced. Before it performs the replacing, the user has the chance to
deselect those parts that have visible studs or for any other reason should
not be replaced.
Sorry, I don't understand "2 x 4" notion.
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> Simplifying one of these elements could consist of removing the studs
> and then calculate the bounding box. If you replace the whole part
> with this bounding box, you would end up with a lot of simplification.
> For added realism, you could add the studs again to what's left of the
> part, namely the bounding box.
That's a way to go. But that means we need three versions of the same part...
Like I said: simplifying is complicated.
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> Fredrik
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Rendering Datsville with POV-Ray
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| (...) That sounds very clever to me! (...) Sorry for being unclear, I just meant that the name of the part should be "brick", "plate" or "tile", with some size spesification afterwards, but nothing more. If the name includes anything besides the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Rendering Datsville with POV-Ray
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| Tore, if you could create a tutorial while you're working on it on "How to Build Datsville", it might make a good addition to the reference section of ldraw.org. Anyway, it would give some information for people to chew on. Slap some screenshots on (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Rendering Datsville with POV-Ray
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| (...) Perhaps you could do this automatically by applying the technique to every part for which the name only includes the words "brick", "plate" or "tile"? It must also include some kind of "2 x 4" notion, but if it does not contain anything else, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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