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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 23 Aug 2000 16:31:38
Message: <39A4337D.F63FC2F2@online.no>
25ct wrote:

> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
> news:39A4252F.282E76BC@online.no...
>
> > Is it like a "normal" blob with two sphere components ?
> > Do you (or anyone else in here) know ?
> > Thank you for commenting.
>
>      Tor,  you are very, very, close!

Do you mean that I'm very close to a dividing cell ?

If so: Is it the image I posted, or is it my suggestion
to use a "normal" two-component blob that is close ?

Thanks for commenting


Tor Olav
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Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 23 Aug 2000 17:51:44
Message: <39a44770@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
news:39A31644.AB3DE5EF@online.no...
> Because my employer has sent me travelling a lot lately,
> I haven't had much time for rendering the past weeks. =(

Don't understand this.

When You travel by car, You can let Your notebook
render all the time, and at each stop, You look at
the pictures and make the next steps.


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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 23 Aug 2000 18:25:40
Message: <39A44E37.1A5962A2@online.no>


> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
> news:39A31644.AB3DE5EF@online.no...
> > Because my employer has sent me travelling a lot lately,
> > I haven't had much time for rendering the past weeks. =(
>
> Don't understand this.
>
> When You travel by car, You can let Your notebook
> render all the time, and at each stop, You look at
> the pictures and make the next steps.

Hehe ...

But how did you know that I were travelling by car and
that I'm carrying a notebook with me ???

The first days I got so bored when I was sitting on the
ferry (or waiting for it) that I started up POV-Ray and
did some renderings.

But the laptop's LCD is quite bad for viewing the
results, so I became quite  frustrated when I couldn't
see clearly the details I wanted to examine in the image.

Therefore I don't render in the car anymore. But I
often think about ideas I have (like these antiblobs)
when I'm travelling.

I have also found that I don't like to render when I'm
feeling alone (like in the car which also is an "off-line
place").

Being online and reading these POV-news groups
inspires me a lot when I'm POV-ing.


Tor Olav
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From: Steve
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 24 Aug 2000 11:18:03
Message: <slrn8qa7d8.7ov.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:20:39 +0200, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>
>The first days I got so bored when I was sitting on the
>ferry (or waiting for it) that I started up POV-Ray and
>did some renderings.
>
>But the laptop's LCD is quite bad for viewing the
>results, so I became quite  frustrated when I couldn't
>see clearly the details I wanted to examine in the image.
>
>Therefore I don't render in the car anymore. But I
>often think about ideas I have (like these antiblobs)
>when I'm travelling.
>
>I have also found that I don't like to render when I'm
>feeling alone (like in the car which also is an "off-line
>place").
>
>Being online and reading these POV-news groups
>inspires me a lot when I'm POV-ing.

Wow that's multi-tasking.  

The solution's simple, d/l the newsgroups so that you can read
them off line, and get petrol generator so that you can plug
a standard monitor in and use it with you'r notebook, presumably
you have something that allows you to plug the notebook into 
the car's cigarette lighter (to allow you to do renders that take
more than on hour). 

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From: Ken Matassa
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 25 Aug 2000 00:22:05
Message: <39A5EF19.A6@pacbell.net>
I have no idea why, but my first impression upon seeing the first image
was "Rocky Mountain Oysters". Go figure. The second image looks a lot
like some of those molecule models you see in chem labs in school.

Ken Matassa


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From: Sander
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 25 Aug 2000 16:18:53
Message: <MPG.1410f2e9e5c8f55a98968c@news.povray.org>
In article <39A31644.AB3DE5EF@online.no>, tto### [at] onlineno says...
> Because my employer has sent me travelling a lot lately,
> I haven't had much time for rendering the past weeks. =(
> 
> But today I found some time to try out an idea I have.
> 
> I have made a macro in plain POV (of coarse :) that makes
> blobs that seems to repel each other; thus "Antiblobs"
> 
> The first image contains 72 such blobs and the second
> image contains 8.
> 
> Please comment !
> 
> 
> Tor Olav
Looks great: it resembles a plant virus I used to work with (name: Turnip 
Yellow Mosaic Virus). Only this virus particle had something like 60 
equivalent blobs: 3 on each of the 20 triangles. Can you do that with 
your macro? And: wouldn't this be something nice for POVChem?
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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 26 Aug 2000 17:06:30
Message: <39A8304D.7AB99AA1@online.no>
Steve wrote:
> ...
> The solution's simple, d/l the newsgroups so that you can read
> them off line, 

The off-line reading of these newsgroups from day to day 
only takes about 10-20 minutes. And I do that in the 
evenings at internet cafes. 

Checking for NEW posts at these newsgroups is much 
more exciting than doing nothing while I'm rendering !


> and get petrol generator so that you can plug
> a standard monitor in and use it with you'r notebook, 

I would consider myself very weird if I bought
a petrol generator (or DC/AC voltage converter) 
in order to be able to ray trace while driving !


> presumably you have something that allows you to plug the 
> notebook into the car's cigarette lighter (to allow you to do 
> renders that take more than on hour).

The ferries don't allow any engines to be running ...

And there is something wrong with the laptop battery:
It only lasts for about 15 minutes.

:(


Tor Olav
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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 26 Aug 2000 17:14:25
Message: <39A8322C.6F889D19@online.no>
Ken Matassa wrote:
> 
> I have no idea why, but my first impression upon seeing the first image
> was "Rocky Mountain Oysters". Go figure. 

I have been trying to figure out why you get associations 
towards oysters ... but I still can't figure ...

But I'm happy that it gave you such strange impressions !

=)


> The second image looks a lot like some of those molecule 
> models you see in chem labs in school.

Hmmm ... I try to remember, but it's about 14 years
since I learned about chemistry. 

Maybe the models was different back then ?


Tor Olav
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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 26 Aug 2000 17:21:34
Message: <39A833D6.E6E56353@online.no>
Sander wrote:
> 
> Looks great: 

Thank you !


> it resembles a plant virus I used to work with (name: Turnip
> Yellow Mosaic Virus). Only this virus particle had something like 60
> equivalent blobs: 3 on each of the 20 triangles. Can you do that with
> your macro? 

The macro can take any array of blob centres.

So if you can provide the co-ordinates for the blob 
centres, then I can try to write the code for the virus.

Do you have any pictures of this interesting virus ?


> And: wouldn't this be something nice for POVChem?

Sorry. I don't know POVChem. 

Is it a patch ? A collection of macros ?
Or something else ?

Please explain.


Tor Olav
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From: Sander
Subject: Re: 72 Antiblobs (120kB + 22kB)
Date: 29 Aug 2000 17:50:05
Message: <MPG.141642cd34f1e89c98968e@news.povray.org>
In article <39A833D6.E6E56353@online.no>, tor### [at] onlineno says...
> 

> Do you have any pictures of this interesting virus ?
> 
I'll try and look up some: it's more than 30 years ago I busied myself 
with TYMV.
> Sorry. I don't know POVChem. 
> 
> Is it a patch ? A collection of macros ?
> Or something else ?
> 
> Please explain.
> 
Povchem is a shareware program that takes the coordinates of the atoms of 
a chemical compound and produces a code that enables Povray to render a 
high quality image of that compound. I have used it only a few times to 
evaluate it: I have no real use for it. see www.chemicalgraphics.com 
(perhaps).

-- 
Regards,  Sander


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