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Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:22:57 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht wrote:

http://chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/LEGO/land/fallwtr.html

Very nice.  I also like the physical-lego waterfall. (Waterfalls
are one of the hardest things to make, IMO).

I did a fractal terrain thing on my jade outpost model.
http://www.gyugyi.com/l3g0/darksun/L3/jade/outpost/outpost.html
I ended up with a set of 32x32 "terrain" baseplates at varying
resolution.  One trick is to only include the visible bricks,
and group things into larger bricks when possible.

Is there an ldraw-based terrain maker?



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  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) (URL) (...) (Waterfalls (...) That is a very interesting scene. Really hard to describe :) Ryan "God is always polishing my personality, giving me new things to work on. Since I've become a Christian, my whole perception of life has changed." (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) Yep. Jacob Sparre Anderson has created a fractal landscape generator. It works in two steps, first you create a PGM bitmap (in an image editor, or using Jacob's fractal generator), then you convert the PGM to LDraw. Sorry, I don't have the URL (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) I didn't place all 10,000 parts separately, though. Thanks to Jacob's fractal landscape generator, I was able to convert a contour map and a color map of the Fallingwater landscape into a DAT file. To create the contour map, I first scanned (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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