Short: 'Sierpinski Pyramid' image by UnreaL Author: unreal@fly.cc.fer.hr (Goran Krajnovic) Uploader: unreal fly cc fer hr (Goran Krajnovic) Type: pix/unrl Architecture: generic Copyright notice: this picture is (c) copyright by Goran Krajnovic. It may be freely distributed or published in electronic, printed or video form, but only if it is distributed free of charge. Magazines and other publishers (such as CD ROMs) are required to send a free copy of the publication to the author. Distribution through Aminet and Fred Fish archives (on disk, CD ROM or ftp sites) is hereby granted. Rendered using Real 3D 1.4 (yes, the old one) on an Amiga 1200. This one is another fractal-based image. The pyramid is based on the Sierpinski gasket, first thought of by (you guessed) Waclaw Sierpinski, a Polish mathematician, one of the first to explore the fractal theory. There is an anecdote related to Mr. Sierpinski (don't know if it's true, though). Apparently, Mr. and Ms. Sierpinski were going on vacation, and they packed ten suitcases which they would carry with them. As they got ready, they carried out the luggage, and Ms. Sierpinski asked her husband to count them to make sure they carry all of them. He counted them, and shouted back in the house that there were only nine suitcases there. His wife came out, saying that all the luggage was out, and asked him to count again. And he counted: 'Zero, one, two, three....' :-) The object wasn't so hard to make as it might seem. With clever texturing and macros, I was finished in no time. Then I spent three days trying to prevent Real 3D from crashing, since the object is a bit complicated and it must not cut into any other objects. Contact me: Goran Krajnovic Bartolici 19 10000 Zagreb Croatia unreal@fly.cc.fer.hr goran.krajnovic@fer.hr http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/ IRC: UnreaL (#croatia, #amiga) . . . . . . : . . : : : : : | : : | | | | | __| |_____ _____ _____ _____| | | | | . | . | . | . | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |__| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ! | ! | | | | | | | | | ___| _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |__ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ! | | | | | ! | | | ! | `-----| | | | `-----| | |-----' | : | : | : | : : : : : : : : . : . : . : . . . . Powered by Amiga.