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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.
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.
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.
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.
I used one light source and a very low level of ambient light.