Sorry about the size. The sharp lines unfortunately do not survive 
compression or resizing.

Very excited about this one. Several weeks work. No light sources or 
radiosity. All finishes are ambient 1. Though "flat", this image is very 
much intended to be "seen" in 3D. 4D actually if you count the intended 
suggestion of activity.

The file name reveals an exciting (to me) element of this particular 
picture...utility. This will be used as a clock face.

  -Shay

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	Nice, I love this type of pseudo 2D images.

		Jerome

PS: BTW, with the right options, it compresses to a 175K jpeg with
very few artefacts: http://jeberger.free.fr/tmp/clock_full.jpg

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"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message
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> Sorry about the size. The sharp lines unfortunately do not survive
> compression or resizing.
>
> Very excited about this one. Several weeks work. No light sources or
> radiosity. All finishes are ambient 1. Though "flat", this image is very
> much intended to be "seen" in 3D. 4D actually if you count the intended
> suggestion of activity.
>
> The file name reveals an exciting (to me) element of this particular
> picture...utility. This will be used as a clock face.
>
>   -Shay
>

a watch face for a watch you are making? or what? that's pretty cool. did
you get this look and feel by using a certain type of camera or is it
geometrically contructed to look this way? (does that make sense?)

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Fantastic. Do you plan on making some "fake 2D" tutorials with your
techniques? Look forward to it.

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> 
>     Nice, I love this type of pseudo 2D images.

Thank you.

> 
> PS: BTW, with the right options, it compresses to a 175K jpeg with
> very few artefacts: http://jeberger.free.fr/tmp/clock_full.jpg

That looks great. What program did you use? I tried to compress it with 
Irfanview and had no luck. I'm not happy with my Zazzle images, either. 
I would like to recompress them with your technique.

  -Shay

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Ross wrote:

> 
> a watch face for a watch you are making? or what? that's pretty cool. did
> you get this look and feel by using a certain type of camera or is it
> geometrically contructed to look this way? (does that make sense?)

Thank you. Yes, a clock face for about a 10 inch diameter clock which I 
am making. I think I understand what you are asking. The picture is 
geometrically constructed to look this way. The outlines are all 
geometry. No tricks.

  -Shay

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Roberto Amorim wrote:

> Fantastic. Do you plan on making some "fake 2D" tutorials with your
> techniques? Look forward to it.
> 

Thank you very much. There wouldn't be much to put into a tutorial. 
Basically, this is just an SDL created mesh with finish { ambient 1 } 
and cylinder outlines.

To color the mesh and cylinders, I create a pallet image with each of a 
selection of colors labeled with its RGB components. I print the pallet 
render to see how the colors will look in ink. When I've got the colors 
I want, I then create an array of these pallet entries and color parts 
for the mesh with pigment { rgb Pallet[0] }. I have attached an example 
of a "pallet render" to clarify.

  -Shay

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Shay wrote:

|> PS: BTW, with the right options, it compresses to a 175K jpeg with
|> very few artefacts: http://jeberger.free.fr/tmp/clock_full.jpg
|
| That looks great. What program did you use? I tried to compress it
with
| Irfanview and had no luck. I'm not happy with my Zazzle images,
either.
| I would like to recompress them with your technique.
|
	I used The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/). The important setting here
is the "subsampling" parameter which defaults to 2x2,1x1,1x1 (worst
quality for drawings but nearly no visible difference on photographs)
and should be set to 1x1,1x1,1x1 for drawings.

		Jerome
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Wow! Looks fabulous! I have no idea how you were able to do this... Very
atypical kind of image.

Regards,
Hugo

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Hugo Asm wrote:

> Wow! Looks fabulous! I have no idea how you were able to do this... Very
> atypical kind of image.
> 

Thanks a lot. Really, though, nothing spectacular in the construction of 
it. Most of the time spent on the image was used adjusting the shape and 
colors. The first version was a one color silhouette with the hour marks 
along the outside edge.

I do really like it, though, and am considering not giving it up for the 
clock. I think I'll make an orange and gray colored version for the 
clock and then use my preferred (current) color scheme (with a few added 
details) for a full size version.

  -Shay

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