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# ooh.
I like this a lot.

so that BBC thing you were playing with last week, that's recreated as a render?
I thought it was just edited frame by frame but this is a neato
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 6:53, archived)
# Yep.
I started working on creating the BBC thing after I read on a site that they originally did it with a ball on a stick and a parabolic mirror. I started off trying to make the mirror with a ellipsoid cylinder (the POV quadric stuff was a little complicated for the time of night) and ended up leaving it unfinished. Then the other night I got the inclination to finish it off with a proper rendered parabolic mirror and that was the result. The motion sickness one was simply the result of "moving" the camera in a circle during the render.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 6:58, archived)
# freaking sweet
 
the moving mirror is my favourite I think
www.b3ta.com/board/9390455
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:11, archived)
# I was going to post the source to the BBC thing in case others wanted to play
It's pretty simple really.

Unfortunately, all the angle brackets in the vectors went wonky in b3ta's formatting and it's too late at night to fix it all. I'm not sure on the protocol for posting 140 odd lines of code on /board. I think I might get shouted at :)
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:04, archived)
# Need to > < them to post the code in the message area.
Have you tried out MegaPOV? Some neat extras in there that can be fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:16, archived)
# <pre> might preserve them?
  test

No, it doesn't. Oh well.
dfn
code
samp
kbd
var
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:50, archived)
# Nope.
Javascript auto-preview, pressing "preview" and submitting/"post this message"
all do different things to your text. Not to mention the differences between the
Subject area and Message area handling. All of which is ... very different. [/:-D


(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb &omega;&infin; for sigs, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:56, archived)
# post and be damned, I say
I'd rather read code than a hundred and forty lines of attention-seeking drivel.
YES, I AM LOOKING AT YOU, DAY PEOPLE

or you could park it here
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:17, archived)
# Yes post it!
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 7:21, archived)