POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Coffee Mug : Re: Coffee Mug Server Time
28 Mar 2024 06:58:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coffee Mug  
From: MichaelJF
Date: 29 Jun 2022 12:59:03
Message: <62bc84d7$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.06.2022 um 12:42 schrieb Bald Eagle:
> "Dave Blandston" <IsN### [at] protonmailch> wrote:
>> This is a just-for-fun object. The image on the side of the mug is from a .png
>> image (also made with POV-Ray, of course) but the image is applied to a thin box
>> which is divided into lots of narrow segments that are wrapped around the mug.
>>
>> Have an awesome day folks!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Dave Blandston
> 
> Very nice work - that looks like exactly the approach as Chris Colefax's "object
> bender".
> 
> http://www.oocities.org/ccolefax/index.html
> 
> But ... why didn't you just uv-map it with cylindrical mapping?
> 
> or a cylindrical warp
> 
> https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Warp
> 
Yes, very nice indeed. But uv-mapping would need a mesh-object. With CSG 
it will not work. With CSG an cylindrical image_map would display the 
image at the inside of the cup too. If CSG was used, cutaway_texture may 
be an option to avoid the repetition in the inside of the cup.

BTW a very nide inside of a coffee mug was posted 09/03/2002 by tincanman:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/thread/%3C3d74cad9%241%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=437504&toff=850

Best regards,
Michael


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