From: | reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu (Ross J(dot) Reedstrom) |
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To: | hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Developers Globe (FINAL) |
Date: | 1999-03-17 00:38:53 |
Message-ID: | m10N4MH-000LHuC@wallace.ece.rice.edu |
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>
> Those pictures are CPU killers. A 333 MHz Celeron needs 20
> minutes to finish that one.
>
> Remember, it's a 100% virtual picture. Not one single detail
> is from a scanned photo or the like.
>
And to make it just that little bit more life-like -
How about either:
1 - bumpmap the continents to match the glass, then don't do a drop shadow
on the glass - so they look 'painted' on
or
2 - extrude the continents, so they have 'edges', and look like blocks of
foam pasted on the glass (with or w/o a finer grained bumpmap of their own)
You've got all the CPU in the world, right? ;-)
Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005
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