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Bryce 5 Metaball Easter Egg

July 26, 2001 in Uncategorized

I learned this from one of the engineers when I was in Ottawa. To make a metaball object that subtracts rather than adds to an object, press the shift key when clicking the create metaball object. cool! You’d better label the object as a negative or sucky metaball, because Bryce doesn’t give you any means of identifying the metaball type once you’ve made it. (name it something like “negative metaball” in the Object Attributes dialog box.)

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Formerly “All Things Bryce” this site is home to the professional consulting business of Susan A. Kitchens, AuntiAlias & Associates.

What is AuntiAlias, anyhow?

AuntiAlias is a pun on the word antialias. In computer graphics, anti-aliasing is the process of adding what seems to be blurry in-between pixels to smooth the image so it won't appear so "jaggy." The pun came about in the early days of Bryce, the 3D landscape software. Bryce's final rendering pass is anti-aliasing. On the software's support boards, I'd sign my posts as "Auntie Alias." I thought, "Hey, I'll make that into a screen name!" The 10-character limit resulted in this spelling you see here: auntialias.

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