Hi.

I have not been able to touch POV for quite some time now, I am close to
finishing up my doctorate so life is busy :-) Any way, my wife is the
undergraduate chemistry staff assistant at the university where I am
studying and she had a prblem. One of the lab courses uses a custom lab
manual which has a lot of hand-drawn illustrations. She asked me if I could
redo some of them. Of course I said yes! The first image was the original,
the second was what I came up with using MegaPOV 0.6 (my beta expired and I
am on a slooooow modem :-(
Comments?

-paul

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Paul Daniel Jones wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have not been able to touch POV for quite some time now, I am close to
> finishing up my doctorate so life is busy :-) Any way, my wife is the
> undergraduate chemistry staff assistant at the university where I am
> studying and she had a prblem. One of the lab courses uses a custom lab
> manual which has a lot of hand-drawn illustrations. She asked me if I could
> redo some of them. Of course I said yes! The first image was the original,
> the second was what I came up with using MegaPOV 0.6 (my beta expired and I
> am on a slooooow modem :-(
> Comments?

Well, I think the pipe attached to the "ground" is simply a stick and
the horizontal one is attached by a plier and at the other end is
another plier holding the actual filtration column...  I think you might
not want to copy the exact drawing but rather ask your wife to redraw
them for you with the appropriate details...  IMO...

But the render is very neat! ;)

-- 
    "Neuromancer," the boy said.  "The lane to the land of the 
dead.  Where you are, my friend.  I call up the dead.  But no,
my friend, I am the dead, and their land."    (William Gibson)
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> But the render is very neat! ;)
Yes it is.

To make yourself less work:
Why don't you take a modeling program?
You could get vector graphics and rendering is not necessary.

Then take it in Illustrator or similiar and finish it (text, arrows etc.)

In an illustration the borders are always thicker than other lines (all
edges where something can go behind).
The others are thin.

You can see this kind of illustration in almost every better instruction
manual.

-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

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Without the text of the manual, it is obviously difficult to see how this is
built, but rest assured, there are other illustrations to elaborate the finer
points of the construction :-) the vertical and horizontal posts are made from
drinking straws with some fancy cutting and hole punching.

As far as using a modeler, I like to code :-)
-paul

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did not know that you can do rendering they look if they are illustrations. 
nice.
if you want to make an illustration and povray is your tool, why do not 
make it real 3D? arrows and text can be placed free in the room. IMO it 
could look interesting.

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If you don't mind sharing, how ARE you doing that?  What kind of settings
result in a
outline appearance?


"Paul Daniel Jones" <pdj### [at] psuedu> wrote in message
news:3d2abe38@news.povray.org...
> Hi.
>
> I have not been able to touch POV for quite some time now, I am close to
> finishing up my doctorate so life is busy :-) Any way, my wife is the
> undergraduate chemistry staff assistant at the university where I am
> studying and she had a prblem. One of the lab courses uses a custom lab
> manual which has a lot of hand-drawn illustrations. She asked me if I
could
> redo some of them. Of course I said yes! The first image was the original,
> the second was what I came up with using MegaPOV 0.6 (my beta expired and
I
> am on a slooooow modem :-(
> Comments?
>
> -paul
>
>
>
>
>
>

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marabou wrote:
> 
> did not know that you can do rendering they look if they are
> illustrations. nice.
> if you want to make an illustration and povray is your tool, why do not
> make it real 3D? arrows and text can be placed free in the room. IMO it
> could look interesting.

My experience is that a more abstract illustration is easier to understand.
Probably for the very same reason they didn't use a photo but a drawing
in the first place.

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(sorry for mailing this to you patrick! :-)


Thanks for asking!

I model and render the scene as normal. Then make all the objects white and
100% transparent with high ambient and diffuse finishes (3-4 ish). Remove
any floor and sky and set a white background. When rendered, the image
should be completely white. Then I add a post-process filter, "find_edges"
to the global_settings block and render. Then tweak as necessary. :-)

If I get a chance, I will post the code.

-paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] usnetcomcorpcom>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:48 AM
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> If you don't mind sharing, how ARE you doing that?  What kind of settings
> result in a
> outline appearance?
>
>
> "Paul Daniel Jones" <pdj### [at] psuedu> wrote in message
> news:3d2abe38@news.povray.org...
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have not been able to touch POV for quite some time now, I am close to
> > finishing up my doctorate so life is busy :-) Any way, my wife is the
> > undergraduate chemistry staff assistant at the university where I am
> > studying and she had a prblem. One of the lab courses uses a custom lab
> > manual which has a lot of hand-drawn illustrations. She asked me if I
> could
> > redo some of them. Of course I said yes! The first image was the
original,
> > the second was what I came up with using MegaPOV 0.6 (my beta expired
and
> I
> > am on a slooooow modem :-(
> > Comments?
> >
> > -paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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