Hello everyone,

Just a small image today. It's a star ruby for a website I'll be making 
for my friend who deals in gemstones. I thought I'd incorporate it into 
the logo. What do you think? Is it convincing? I didn't do anything 
fancy for the star; it's just a pigment.

Questions and/or comments are welcome, as always~

~Sam

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That is really quite pleasing to the eye...

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> Hello everyone,
>
> Just a small image today. It's a star ruby for a website I'll be making
> for my friend who deals in gemstones. I thought I'd incorporate it into
> the logo. What do you think? Is it convincing? I didn't do anything
> fancy for the star; it's just a pigment.
>
> Questions and/or comments are welcome, as always~
>
It looks gorgeous but please can you send me an item to check if it is 
really convincing?  ;-)

Marc

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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> That is really quite pleasing to the eye...

Thanks :)

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Marc wrote:

>> Questions and/or comments are welcome, as always~
>>
> It looks gorgeous 

Thanks!

> but please can you send me an item to check if it is 
> really convincing?  ;-)
> 
> Marc 

Ha! I wish I had a star ruby such as this :( I have some rough corundum, 
but I can't tell if it's sapphire or ruby.... they're too dark to tell 
just yet. I'd like to polish them, but I don't have the proper setup for 
that ATM.

~Sam

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Samuel Benge nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/07/11 15:24:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Just a small image today. It's a star ruby for a website I'll be making 
> for my friend who deals in gemstones. I thought I'd incorporate it into 
> the logo. What do you think? Is it convincing? I didn't do anything 
> fancy for the star; it's just a pigment.
> 
> Questions and/or comments are welcome, as always~
> 
> ~Sam
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
Just did a quick search about star rubys.
Your's is particularly smooth, as most of those I found where showing multiple 
flake like internal reflections and highlights. They showed colours going from 
pink to purple.
Nice stone.

-- 
Alain
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Alain wrote:
> Just did a quick search about star rubys.
> Your's is particularly smooth, as most of those I found where showing 
> multiple flake like internal reflections and highlights. <snip>

Hmm, this gives me an idea... a potentially slow-rendering idea :)

> Nice stone.
Thanks!

~Sam

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Hey Sam, you've turned the corner with this image.   :o)

  Faultless.


    ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
> Hey Sam, you've turned the corner with this image.   :o)

Thanks... wait, turned the corner to where? :)

>   Faultless.

A stone of this quality would probably be considered such, but that 
alone decreases the realism of the scene, I think. It was fun, anyway :)

~Sam

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"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] THIShotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>> Hey Sam, you've turned the corner with this image.   :o)
>
> Thanks... wait, turned the corner to where? :)

    The corner of realism.


>
>>   Faultless.
>
> A stone of this quality would probably be considered such,


   Yep, it's a little too good with the actual star - I would expect a 
smidgeon more blurriness around each leg. As it is though, I'd buy that 
stone...



 but that
> alone decreases the realism of the scene, I think.

  I don't think so. See first answer above.  ;)


>  It was fun, anyway :)

   Of course! It always *is* fun. : o)

   ~Steve~


>
> ~Sam

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