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31 Jul 2024 08:29:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: images and animations of crystal minerals  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 26 Jul 2007 04:11:19
Message: <46a85727$1@news.povray.org>
"Leef_me" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.46a84c705fa25c98892adb1d0@news.povray.org...
>I am fascinated by crystal minerals such as quartz, pyrite or the inside of
> geodes. I have searched both povray and the www for information about
> rendering examples as images or even animations. I have not found 
> anything.
>
> My knowledge is very limited in this area. I have found references to
> crystaline structures of molecules, but that is not what I am looking for.
>

You will need to know something about crystallography in order to build 
minerals. This site may be a good starting point: 
http://webmineral.com/crystall.shtml

Thomas


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