Fractal Crystal Renderer

Red Fractal Crystal done with proprietary Super Quadrics Metaball Renderer.

The current version is for windows and mac version .

You can change the color, resolution, camera position, etc. and render it yourself.

sqm is a renderer specializing in superquadrics metaball, which can 

represent various shapes such as ellipsoids and cubes with the value

of three power parameters.

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FILES

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red.bat    run file

red.sq     primitive data file

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EXAMPLE 

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sqm -d20 -D3 -i red.sq -o red.ppm -x800 -y800 -f0:18:18 -a0:0:0 -A3:0.05 -b0:0:0

   -i <primitive data file>

   -o <output image file>

   -f <camera>

   -a <target>

   -x <x resolution>

   -y <y resolution>

   -l <light>

   -A <anti aliasing>

   -s1 <shadow>

   -D <depth of ray>

   -d <depth of space subdivision>

   -b <background color>

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FORMAT OF DATA 

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begin_blob

surf

0.3 0.8 0.1       ------------  R G B

.2 .6 .5          ------------  diffuse  specular  reflection 

20.0 0 0          ------------  phong-exponents  opacity  reflaction 

blob_ball1

2.0 0.5      --------- weight core-ratio 

-0.5 0.0 0.0 --------- translate

1.0 1.0 1.0  --------- scale

0.0 0.0 0.0  --------- rotation

2.0 2.0 2.0  --------- superquadric exponents

end_blob