To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray. 
  Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves 
tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make 
it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only 
objects we can use our spheres and planes.

So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and 
produces sphere sweep like snake.  I even came up with a clever title 
for it.  ;)


Skip

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Skip Talbot wrote:
> To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray.
>  Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves
> tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make
> it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only
> objects we can use our spheres and planes.

How many spheres ended up reflective? :)

> So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and
> produces sphere sweep like snake.  I even came up with a clever title
> for it.  ;)

Nice image! Bet your teacher liked it.

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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> To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray.
>   Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves
> tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make
> it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only
> objects we can use our spheres and planes.
>
> So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and
> produces sphere sweep like snake.  I even came up with a clever title
> for it.  ;)
>
LOL cool snakes how do you feed them? ganja?


Marc

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Eero Ahonen wrote:

> 
> How many spheres ended up reflective? :)
> 

> Nice image! Bet your teacher liked it.
> 

Don't know yet, class meets Monday night.

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Marc wrote:

> LOL cool snakes how do you feed them? ganja?
> 

haven't tried feeding them ganja yet... although it might produce 
interesting results.  As for how... osmosis

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"Skip Talbot" <Ski### [at] aolcom> schreef in bericht 
news:450d7c53@news.povray.org...
> To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray.
>  Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves
> tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make
> it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only
> objects we can use our spheres and planes.
>
> So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and
> produces sphere sweep like snake.  I even came up with a clever title
> for it.  ;)
>

Very cute!!! Loved them at first sight!

Thomas

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Skip Talbot <Ski### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray.
>   Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves
> tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make
> it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only
> objects we can use our spheres and planes.
>
> So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and
> produces sphere sweep like snake.

Well, writing any working and designated macro must be looked upon as an A+
tweaking. I wanna go to POV-Ray class to! Boo-hoo.


>I even came up with a clever title
> for it.  ;)

You sure did! :D

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Skip Talbot wrote:
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
>>
>> Nice image! Bet your teacher liked it.
>>
> 
> Don't know yet, class meets Monday night.

Come on, update the information :p.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
      aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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Very cute!
> "Skip Talbot" wrote:
> To my pleasant surprise, my rendering techniques class is using POV-Ray.
>   Finally I get to show off a little.  The first assignment involves
> tweaking a scene with a sphere and a plane in it.  Our task is to make
> it more interesting.  We can add more spheres and planes, but the only
> objects we can use our spheres and planes.
>
> So I wrote a macro that takes a couple of splines and color maps, and
> produces sphere sweep like snake.  I even came up with a clever title
> for it.  ;)
>
>
> Skip

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