"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Hi everyone,
>
> One of the first things I made with POV-Ray version 1.0 back in the early 
> '90s
> was the Metallica logo. It was really messy (I didn't know about 
> coincident
> surfaces yet...) so recently I decided to redo it and clean it up. I ended 
> up
> with a new scene and here it is. The concept is related to the song "For 
> Whom
> the Bell Tolls," which is about a five-man special forces team.
>
> Please feel free to criticize anything that might be wrong with this 
> scene...
>
> Known problems: The scene is kind of "busy." I'm not sure what can be done 
> about
> that. The scale of the cloth weave on the flag is way too large, but I'll 
> adjust
> it for the final (large) render. I've always assumed the song was about 
> the
> Vietnam war, so the camo doesn't match the type that probably would have 
> been in
> use under those circumstances ("Tiger stripe,") but since there's no 
> specific
> reference to which war the song is about I fudged for artistic preference.
>
> Notes: The background is very dark. There are three shades of brown in the 
> camo
> - tan, medium, and dark brown. On LCD monitors without good contrast the 
> dark
> brown actually looks like medium brown. It should be about the color of 
> dark
> chocolate. The camo texture is supposed to be ballistic nylon. The extra 
> face is
> Cliff Burton ("Men of five, still alive...")
>
> Regards,
> Dave Blandston
>

Wow!  I dont find it that busy at all btw.

Cheers Dre

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