Monica Paolini (paolini++at++neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Mon, 25 May 1998 14:55:23 +0200 (CEST)
I am trying to set up an application which simulates self-motion
is a very simple environment which should be able to run continuously
-or say for a couple of hours. The background is homogeneous 3D set
of pfLightPoints. Currently I create a large enough number of light
points in a large enough space that self-motion is possible for only for
a few seconds without going out of the defined region. But of course
this is not a good solution.
I would like to be able to define a small 3D region, put my light points and
then re-present the same region whenever necessary, so that the background
with random dots is constantly there. As long as the borders of these
regions are seamlessly integrated I do not mind that the same random pattern
of light points appears again and again. From what I understand, this should
be something like texture tiling, but with a volume of space being the tile
instead of a texture. Or maybe it is possible to construct the 3D region
with random dots as a texture.
I have not found any information on how to build such a recurrent model
of space --or about other ways to solve this problem, although it seems
that should be rather common. I will very much appreciate any help
you could give me.
Monica
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Monica Paolini paolini++at++neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Allg. Zoologie und Neurobiologie http://phaistos.ucsd.edu/~paolini
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Ruhr Universitaet Bochum 1-49-234-700-7008 (voice)
44780 Bochum GERMANY 1-49-234-709-4278 (fax)
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