This ASX (advanced spheroid xenoform) has just lost its home solar system in
a supernova explosion and is looking for a new home. Notice the distortion
of its craft's near edges as it approaches C and prepares to tachyon-shift
to superluminal flight.

-- Encyclopaedia Galactica,
encg://xenoforms/sentient/images/asx3393/nova.udiml


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"Stefan Viljoen" <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote in message 
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    Woah! Nice! I've been wondering why no one has commented! Sure beats my 
ab1.jpg and ab2.jpg though. :/

   What method did you use to do this?

     ~Steve~




> Stefan Viljoen

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Stefan Viljoen <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote:
> This ASX (advanced spheroid xenoform) has just lost its home solar system in
> a supernova explosion and is looking for a new home. Notice the distortion
> of its craft's near edges as it approaches C and prepares to tachyon-shift
> to superluminal flight.
>
> -- Encyclopaedia Galactica,
> encg://xenoforms/sentient/images/asx3393/nova.udiml
>
>
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> ---
> Stefan Viljoen
> Software Support Technician / Programmer
> Polar Design Solutions

I like it!  Guessing from the jpg filename, did you use tesselsphere to make
the shape?

Dave Matthews

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The right honourable St. spake:

> 
> "Stefan Viljoen" <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote in message
> news:422575da@news.povray.org...
> 
>     Woah! Nice! I've been wondering why no one has commented! Sure beats
>     my
> ab1.jpg and ab2.jpg though. :/
> 
>    What method did you use to do this?

Hi Steve

Thanks! Nothing strange used - the framework around the blob is made by
Nicholas Shea's tesselsphere program (there's a link on the PovRay site's
main page). The background is a Colefax galaxy and the star to the right is
a Colefax lens flare, set to always_on_top=false.

Further, the sphere is a sphere (erm... not a Pov blob, it just LOOKS like a
"blob" :) - I'll put the code in the scene files group (not the tesselation
though, its about 160K - would that be acceptable to put in there too?)
Other than that there is just a bit of focal blur set in the camera.

Thanks for looking at my image,

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The right honourable St. spake:

> 
> "Stefan Viljoen" <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote in message
> news:422575da@news.povray.org...
> 
>     Woah! Nice! I've been wondering why no one has commented! Sure beats
>     my
> ab1.jpg and ab2.jpg though. :/

What is ab1 and ab2?
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The right honourable Dave Matthews spake:

> Stefan Viljoen <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote:
>> This ASX (advanced spheroid xenoform) has just lost its home solar system
>> in a supernova explosion and is looking for a new home. Notice the
>> distortion of its craft's near edges as it approaches C and prepares to
>> tachyon-shift to superluminal flight.
>>
>> -- Encyclopaedia Galactica,
>> encg://xenoforms/sentient/images/asx3393/nova.udiml
>>
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Stefan Viljoen
>> Software Support Technician / Programmer
>> Polar Design Solutions
> 
> I like it!  Guessing from the jpg filename, did you use tesselsphere to
> make the shape?
> 
> Dave Matthews

Yep - just the framework though. A very interesting program - it was my
first try but somehow the shell looked interesting but too... empty
somehow. So I put a reflective and transmittive sphere in there, put in a
galaxy and lensflare and viola!

Oh yeah and thought up some sci-fi hogwash to put in the post...

Thanks for looking at the image,
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"Wednesday Abstract" and "Wednesday Evening Abstract" - right below your 
post... :)

   ~Steve~



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> What is ab1 and ab2?

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