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Is there info online somewhere about creating realistic explosion-type bursts of light in POV-Ray? Thanks, Dave! (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Distorted/cropped spheres filled with media make pretty good flames. Look up media in the POV-Ray documentation, and feel free to contact me directly if you have troubles. I'm no expert, but I've managed to get this to work a bit. -- Tony (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hey, that's pretty clever. I was thinking in too linear a fashion, looking for a way to do flames directly, rather than playing with what's already available. I'll play with it when I have the chance and let you know. Do you have any examples (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I have two quickies: the quick way and the long way. (Note that both examples were written towards POVRay version 3.1g...) ... The quick way: Here's what I wrote for the green laser bolts in my wallpaper "Flight". (1) This creates a 8x8x600 (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) **snip** Whoa! That'll keep me busy for a while... Thanks for the detailed help--I'm sure this will more than meet my meager needs. After I've messed around with it over the next few nights I'll try to post something. Thanks again, Dave! (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: Replying to myself... again... :-, One item I forgot to mention about my second code snippet (fire object from icosahedron) is that it looked like dithered crap until I added the "intervals" and "samples" (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) My proxy server is really flaky right now, leaving me able to read everything in this thread *except* for Jeremy's example post. So I haven't seen his example yet, but here's a hacked-up snippet from a current project. // Code starts here // (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Okay, this machine still can't find that page, but I've got another machine pointing to another bank of proxy servers and I was able to see it there. Wow- Jeremy has much better examples. I may use some of those techniques for my flames. I'll (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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