I get to appear in a frame from LoTR through the miracle of superposition.
Don't worry, it turned out I could take them all on.
This is a visualization of a Julia set, one of several mathematical sets used to generate fractals.
I made a 2-d train!
Borg cube rendered with 2-d functions. Shows off transparency, loops, and the familiar “bucket fill”,
as well as illusory 3-d.
Later rendering of a similar scene to the one above using both 2-d and 3-d functions. Shows off
texture-mapping, illumination and shading, gradient fill, a procedurally-generated starfield, and
actual 3d modeling.
The left cube has flat shading, ambient light, and no anti-aliasing. The right has Phong shading,
light from a white point source, and is moderately anti-aliased.
USS Enterprise, texture-mapped in 3-d. Model composed entirely of cylinders with conical ends.
Shown with a white light source at left and three colored light sources at right. Images hacked
apart to build texture map were grabbed from http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
Pokey space urchins, generated by modified and adapted version of Bruce Maxwell’s sphere-generating
code with random variations. The top uses flat shading, 2 (differently colored) light sources and a green
surface. The bottom ones use Phong shading, 3 light sources in different places and a grey surface.
