README.md

Jellyfish

This project is an assignement for the MPRI course 2.39, it's aim is to modelise and animate jellyfishes.

Here is the final result rendered by povray.

You can find a small overview of the evolution of the project here and slides of the presentation here.

Usage

# Render the final file `scene_frame_0.png`
make scene

# Make a quick rendering of the scene
make fast

# Make a slow rendering of the scene at higher resolution
make fancy

# Render the frame number i of the animation
make FRAME=i scene

You can also get the mesh as a standalone file:

FRAME=0  # frame to render (optional parameter)
SEED=0   # seed for rng (optional parameter)

make
./jellyfish pov $FRAME $SEED > jelly.pov

Where first parameter is the file format among:

• pov/pov_mesh2: povray mesh2 format
• pov_mesh: povray mesh format
• stl