in news:web.41834eb249fa51a78b7cb52f0@news.povray.org Mutley2003 wrote:

> my first post .. I am keen on povray because I can, potentially at
> least, program what I want .

Welcome!
 
> * 3D arrows, bent and wobbly and "cute". With a bit of "character".

There are many ways to achieve this. You can "draw the outlines" and use 
the prism to extrude the arrow. Or use the 'spheresweep' object in 
combination with a cone. Or use blobs and splines to build an arrow. 
Thinking of blobs, you could use arrows found in ttf fonts and process 
them with Remko de Korte's Softtext http://www.xs4all.nl/
~remcodek/softtext.html  Then, with some macros you can bend the arrow 
any way you want.

> * ornate picture frames, like you might see in an art gallery. I got
> as far as thinking one might make some basic material with a routed
> or molded profile, and then cut it at 45 degree angles and fold it
> [...]

Again, use the 'prism' object to extrude the profile you want. Then cut 
off the ends using a difference and boxes.

Ingo

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