POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : One Perfect White Rose... : Re: One Perfect White Rose... Server Time
5 Nov 2024 15:52:25 EST (-0500)
  Re: One Perfect White Rose...  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 31 May 1999 06:18:53
Message: <375253F6.35FCE7F4@aol.com>
Yes, sPatch would be fine. Finer still might be a iso surface, maybe
someone will have a tip on the correct shape. Or you could go about
guessing at one yourself. Just get the Super Patch if you haven't already,
if you can find it.
Reason I say this is because of the possible long parse time a collection
of bicubic_patch rose petals would cause.


Diane Duane wrote:
> 
> > Go to http://www.irtc.org.  Navigate to the previous rounds section.
> > Go to October, 1997 - "Arts and Entertainment".  The winner, "The
> > Drama of Cinema" by Glenn McCarter has an excellent rose.  Download
> > cinema.zip, which contains the pov code to create it and cinema.txt,
> > which contains his comments on the image and his email address.  It is
> > good for study, and I believe that he would give you permission to use
> > it directly.
> 
> Many thanks!  Will do.
> 
> > Beware!  Pov is an addiction!  Could cut into your writing time!
> 
> (snort)  It already has.  :)  But hey, people have to relax somehow...
> (like by rendering and *re*rendering and *rere*rendering and
> *rerere*rendering a sphere on a plane...and moving four different light
> sources around to see how the shadows fall...and screwing up the light
> syntax and having to move everything around thirty more times...).
> Best!  D.

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/homepage.htm
 mailto://inversez@aol.com?Subject=PoV-News


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.