On 04/08/2011 06:47 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 08/04/2011 21:54, Jim Holsenback nous fit lire :
>> On 04/08/2011 03:53 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>> Le 07/04/2011 21:26, Jim Holsenback nous fit lire :
>>>> I was thinking it's about time to change our documentation lead in
>>>> image:
>>>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/File:DocImgPovlogotext.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm /not/ proposing a contest as the only prize would be your
>>>> personal satisfaction, well OK you might get a credit in the docs for
>>>> the image.
>>>>
>>>> What I'm looking for ... the pov-logo /has/ to be part of it, uses one
>>>> or two new features, png format. Size of current image OK but /must/ be
>>>> less than 680px wide.
>
>> yes ... subsurface is one. let's see ... backside diffuse, area
>> illumination ... mesh_cam allows texture baking. several new pigment
>> patterns, and a new shape, use of hdr/exr light maps:
>>
>>
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Tutorial_Section_1#Changes_and_New_Features_Summary
>>
>
> Nice list!
>
>> I also thought this make a cool collaborative effort. I want to get
>> something that /POPS/ ...
>
> hmmmm that's a challenge!
>
>> so I guess I'd like to see if some of you top
>> echelon artists might like to add to the effort. Lately there's also
>> been some pretty cool techniques flying around in this news group and I
>> think SDL is a strong point of povray so, some of the macros that have
>> been posted could be put to good use ...
>>
>> I'd to tie the end product into a distribution scene file ... maybe a
>> "the making of" story/tutorial/whatever
>>
>> Too much blue sky?
>
> Do we have the original pov scene for the initial image ?
> (Or did I missed something in thinking that the "contest" is about
> making a banner with "Persistence of Vision" string ?)
>
> Wouldn't a variation of the benchmark scene miss the goal ?
> (ouch, kind of double negative question... )
>
> I enjoyed lately the easter-egg with painted pattern, it might be a nice
> replacement for the O of vision (there is already a sphere in the P with
> the logo, so it can get replaced), See Jim Holsenback 20/03/2011.
>
> One I from vision (1st ?) could get a replacement by a candle (would it
> integrate well ? See Bruno Cabasson 18/2/2011 post) with SSLT/...
>
> One other letter could get replaced by some collection of grains ?
> (Samuel Benge).. or it could be the horizontal line : replaced with a
> dry-stone wall with a bit more vertical dimensions (and variation of the
> grains size along the wall)

exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about ... spelling out povray 
with shapes, kind of a stylized letter approach. also want to work the 
tag-line "Persistence of Vision" as flat text (object pattern or 
something like that) as part of the background or ground plane ... oh 
and I'm going to buck tradition here a request no checkered planes

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