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- About.Splash
- James M. Shook
- PO Box 140
- Cambridge, MA 02238
- BIXid:jshook
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- Statistics about object file 'splash.obj.silver'
- Created with the InterChange Statistics Converter from Syndesis
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- Number of objects in hierarchy: 1
- Total vertices 817, edges 4824, polygons 1608
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- This is a slightly modified version of an image that was used in the
- February 1990 Amiga Periscope article.
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- The image was inspired by a well-known high-speed photograph of a
- splash of milk taken by the pioneering scientific photographer Harold
- Edgerton. The original photograph was taken in a small fraction of a
- second...the ray-trace took a bit longer.
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- When I decided to create this image I was unable to locate a copy of the
- original photograph, so what you see was recreated from hazy memory. Any
- inaccuracies in the image are my own.
-
- The image does not use any of Silver's advanced rendering and textural
- features--the only story here is the geometry of the object. The object
- was created with Sculpt 3D. I created an outline (connected edges) of the
- profile of the shape, which I then spun to make the 3D shape. Then I
- selected every other point on the top of the shape and pulled them up in
- order to make the peaks around the rim of the splash. It took several
- attempts to get this right.
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- I then converted the object to Silver format using InterChange from
- Syndesis. I used Silver's "perfect spheres" to make the central drops and
- the little droplets around the rim.
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- I used one light source and a very low level of ambient light.
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