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nelsonteixeira

08-25-2003, 06:38 PM

I would like to use mel to get how many pixels a Black & White bitmap has (X and Y) and use the color information to rebuild this image using cubes. White means there´s a cube, Black there´s not!.
Can I do this with mel???

galactor

08-25-2003, 07:06 PM

I've scripted something simular. I wanted to be able te rebuild a greyscale/color image to a set of cubes that matched the amount of pixels and took the value of the pixelcolor to determine the height of that cube that would represent the pixel. It was intended to do the same as the effect that can be seen in X-MEN 1.
Like where the whole city was build out of needles that came up trough the floor.

To do this i used the plugins " iffPixelCmd.mll " to extract the pixelvalues. And " iffInfoCmd.mll " to retain the amount of pixels in x and y.

I know it can also be done without plugins, this you can find back in this script that is downloadable from highend3d " particleImage2.mel "

:: Galactor ::

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