Christian Bryndum wrote:
> 
> Thanks again to all of you. I really appreciate it. Ive been playing around
> with Warps vertex's and Frank's star code. And im getting closer.
> What i was thinking of now, is to use Warps vertex's and then combine them
> with some sort of box or line? im looking for something similar to the
> attached file.
> 
> Thanks a mill again guys.
> 
> Christian
> 
>  [Image]

Here are some suggestions:

#1, the basic idea
#2, an optical trick (relying on the orthographic camera)
#3, more towards what you wish
#4, some experimenting and it starts to look like it (without
orthographics)

You may have a closer look at some of the values, but this was fairly
easy to find.

Cheers!


(Oops, just realized I can't attach the pov code as binary here, so I'll
quote it:)

#########################################################
star1.pov:
#########################################################

camera {orthographic location <0,0,-100> look_at <0,0,0> angle 60 }
  light_source { <-100,100,-50> rgb<1,1,1> }
  light_source { <100,50,-50> rgb<.7,.7,.7>  shadowless}
  light_source { <100,200,20> rgb<.4,.4,.4> shadowless}
  light_source { <0,100,50> rgb<.1,.1,.1> shadowless}

#declare tt=0;#while (tt<5) 
  #declare p1=vrotate(<0,20,0>,<0,0,tt*72>);
  #declare p2=vrotate(<0,20,0>,<0,0,(tt+2)*72>);
  sphere{p1,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
  cylinder{p1,p2,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
#declare tt=tt+1;#end

#########################################################
star2.pov
#########################################################

camera {orthographic location <0,0,-100> look_at <0,0,0> angle 60 }
  light_source { <-100,100,-50> rgb<1,1,1> }
  light_source { <100,50,-50> rgb<.7,.7,.7>  shadowless}
  light_source { <100,200,20> rgb<.4,.4,.4> shadowless}
  light_source { <0,100,50> rgb<.1,.1,.1> shadowless}

#declare tt=0;#while (tt<5) 
  #declare p1=vrotate(<0,25,0>,<0,0,tt*72>);
  #declare p2=vrotate(<0,25,0>,<0,0,(tt+2)*72>);
  #declare p3=<(p1.x*2+p2.x)/3,(p1.y*2+p2.y)/3,-1>;
  sphere{p1,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
  cylinder{p1,p3,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
  cylinder{p3,p2,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}

  #declare p1=vrotate(<0,40,0>,<0,0,tt*72>);
  #declare p2=vrotate(<0,40,0>,<0,0,(tt+2)*72>);
  #declare p3=<(p1.x*2+p2.x)/3,(p1.y*2+p2.y)/3,-1>;
  sphere{p1,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
  cylinder{p1,p3,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
  cylinder{p3,p2,1 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
#declare tt=tt+1;#end
  
#########################################################
star3.pov
#########################################################

camera {orthographic location <0,0,-100> look_at <0,0,0> angle 60 }
  light_source { <-100,100,-50> rgb<1,1,1> }
  light_source { <100,50,-50> rgb<.7,.7,.7>  shadowless}
  light_source { <100,200,20> rgb<.4,.4,.4> shadowless}
  light_source { <0,100,50> rgb<.1,.1,.1> shadowless}

#declare tt=0;#while (tt<5) 
  
  difference{
    union{                       
      box{<-40,-2,0><40,2,1> pigment{rgb<.6,.7,.8>}}
      cylinder{<-40,-2,0><40,-2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      cylinder{<-40,2,0><40,2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      translate y*10
    }
    union{
      box{<0,3,-1><50,-25,2> rotate z*18 translate <10,0,0>
pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}}
      box{<-50,3,-1><0,-25,2> rotate z*-18 translate <-10,0,0>
pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}}
    }
    rotate z*tt*72
  }
    
#declare tt=tt+1;#end

#########################################################
star4.pov
#########################################################

camera {location <0,0,-100> look_at <0,0,0> angle 60 }
  light_source { <-100,100,-50> rgb<1,1,1> }
  light_source { <100,50,-50> rgb<.7,.7,.7>  shadowless}
  light_source { <100,200,20> rgb<.4,.4,.4> shadowless}
  light_source { <0,100,50> rgb<.1,.1,.1> shadowless}

#declare tt=0;#while (tt<5) 
  
  difference{
    union{                       
      box{<-40,-2,0><40,2,1> pigment{rgb<.6,.7,.8>}}
      cylinder{<-40,-2,0><5.85,-2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      cylinder{<10,-2,0><40,-2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      cylinder{<-40,2,0><4.75,2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      cylinder{<9,2,0><40,2,0>,.5 pigment{rgb<1,.8,.2>}}
      translate y*10
    }
    union{
      box{<0,3,-1><50,-25,2> rotate z*18 translate <10,0,0>
pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}}
      box{<-50,3,-1><0,-25,2> rotate z*-18 translate <-10,0,0>
pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}}
    }
    rotate z*tt*72
  }
    
#declare tt=tt+1;#end

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