On 5/10/2016 10:16 PM, Norbert Kern wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> You are frightening me. :-)
>> Too much of an insight.
>
> Only some nerdy thoughts.
> Really interesting are the social consequences, if small separated metal parts
> can act independant from each other...
>

I will let you know when I finish reading Stephen Baxter's Proxima. 
There is/are one of those in it.


>> Well, shiny isn't everything.
>> It is hard to see your texture. It is obscured by the geometry. Quite
>> amazing.
>
> I learned decades ago - pulverized metals are darker than solids, non-metals get
> brighter (band gaps bla, bla..). This is hard to realize within a povray
> material, but you are right - fractalized or micronized metals aren't very
> shiny. To my knowlwdge this is especially true for noble metals.
>
> To obscure structure and texture contributions is one of my few standard tricks.
> Here is the basic little fractal...
>

I recognised the shape but the texture you used fits the fractal like a 
glove. It introduces subtleties to what you see. so you don't see it as 
a texture but as the object. (Sorry if my age group is showing)

It is one of the best fractal images I've seen and it is monochrome.

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Regards
     Stephen

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