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  Re: Tidy way to make a billiard ball w/o image maps?  
From: Peter Ketting
Date: 24 Jun 2000 03:19:39
Message: <3954610b@news.povray.org>
CreeD <meshe@nqi.net> wrote in message news:01bfda1e$a03a1ba0$601ba1d0@mk...
> Is there a graceful way to make a billiard ball without an image map?
> I've done the image map thing, and it works great, but I was hoping to
make
> a
> .pov file that could stand on its own and doesn't need fifteen
accompanying
> image files.
> Something to do maybe with using text and differencing it with a sphere?

How about using Intersection? Just make sure the text is deep enough for
intersecting the entire edge with the sphere...

Peter


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