It's the 'goldilocks' number

Handmade versions? You madman!

I did think about writing a general version, so you could make your own. Maybe if I get some time, but I'm working

Yeah. Most I've ever worked with in blender is about 3 mill, and that was with the sculpting tools, not a recursive python prog.

7 is surprisingly dense though, hitting the point where you have to start to zoom in to see the smallest pyramids.

I'll write one tonight for you. It's pretty simple, particularly if you just make it in 2d, then spin it & remove doubles.

Kram, that's not quite right for mine. Mine isn't a serpinski tetrahedron one, it's a serpinski gasket based on a square based pyramid. I only just clicked that the OP was different, I just didn't think, sorry. So mine is 5 faces each, and 5 objects. :) Mine goes from level 0 as a pyramid. So, level...

Nice :) I wrote one for blender for a comp a while back http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=912603&postcount=3 Heres the code if anyone wants it, makes a range of different level gaskets. import Blender from Blender import Mesh,Scene scn=Scene.GetCurrent() def generate(location, scale, le...

Very nice! Or you could use python in blender, that's how I have made parabolic curves before :) Removes any error of doing things by hand. pretty fucking sweet! weird how its illuminating such a big area on the floor though... shouldnt it just be lighting up a tiny spot if its so focused? The focus...

The eye works in a very different way, there is a lot or processing done before the signals go through the optic nerve.

Yeah I've got some of these! Love chaoscope!

What on earth type is the last one?

That would be like importance sampling, which I'm pretty sure is already implemented.

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I was thinking about this, if one thread is waiting for something from the ram, switching may be worth it.

Maybe when a core has a cache miss or the like it's better to have more than one thread per core.

Just speculation though

Well, I don't know if I'll get around to this, but I'll have a tinker over the summer. I'm off on holiday, then hopefully have a scholarship working with robots (woo!) over the summer.

Anything anyone would like to see in violet?

3? I'd say 2, you want each processor to take a thread and stay with it really, you don't want them switching around, that slows things down. ^^ it does? I thought that it was best to use every available thread ? Each core can only run one thing at a time, if you use loads of threads it has to swap ...

A quick addition:

super sampling factor (not sure what it's called) should have a minimum size of 1, if you set it to 0 everything goes horribly wrong!

Very cool, excellent animation, but why in maxwell? The background, maybe, but nothing there really needed an unbiased renderer. The hair may have been tricky in something else but it seems a bit of overkill.