"Chris B" <nomail [at] nomailcom> wrote in message 
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> "Tim Attwood" <timothyea [at] comcastnet> wrote in message
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>>> Just to inflict interest, here a poor man's attempt:
>>> Needs so much work. Like building a model, argh. Crude bumped disk so
>>> far.
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>> The inner ring has all the interesting glyphs (39?), I think you could
>> save those out as heightfield images, it's probably most of the detail
>> of the stargate. There's some ribs between the glyphs, more
>> crenellation on a lip, and a tapered inner edge.
>>
> I reckon I can do the Glyphs for the Milky Way stargate pretty quickly
> because there's an SVG by Max Willis on the Wiki, so I can convert them 
> into
> prism objects using Inkscape and cut them out of the inner disk using CSG.
>

I've posted the 39 Glyphs as prism objects on povray.binaries.scene-files 
along with this very crude scene file that cuts them out of segments of a 
ring and assembles the segments into a circle. If anyone wants to use them 
to make a stargate I'd be happy to go through and scale and centre them as 
needed.

Regards,
Chris B.

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