This is a little graphic I did for a friend of mine.  It's not 
complicated but I'm happy with the result, so I thought I'd share it. 
Yes, the lens flare was done in Photoshop (but it is my own macro!).

To create the embossed text, I created two 16-bit grayscales--one with 
crisp text and a second with the text blurred.  I brought them into POV 
as two different functions and blended them in a third, from which I 
created an HF.

Kirk Andrews
www.tektonart.com

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Kirk Andrews:

> This is a little graphic I did for a friend of mine.

I like it :))

And... had the idea of making some bevelled text via HFs, too.
Didn't like the results, gave up, trashed it.

> To create the embossed text, ...

Could you please explain your techique of using blurred images in 
detail, and ...

> I brought them into POV ...

May I beg for some lines of code, petty please :))

Greetings :))

Thorsten

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>Kirk Andrews  on date 21/04/2010 16:50 wrote:
> This is a little graphic I did for a friend of mine.  It's not
> complicated but I'm happy with the result, so I thought I'd share it.
> Yes, the lens flare was done in Photoshop (but it is my own macro!).
>
> To create the embossed text, I created two 16-bit grayscales--one with
> crisp text and a second with the text blurred. I brought them into POV
> as two different functions and blended them in a third, from which I
> created an HF.
>
> Kirk Andrews
> www.tektonart.com
Nice effect!
;-)
Paolo

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The term *awesome*  comes to mind but it has already been used for another 
image above  ;-)

Very nice work!!

Are those tiny crinkles artefacts from the hfs?

Thomas

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Thorsten wrote:
> I like it :))

Thanks!

> May I beg for some lines of code, petty please :))
> 
> Greetings :))
> 
> Thorsten

Since you begged...

#declare Text1 =
function {
   pigment {
     image_map {
       png "Chronicles-of-Ziklag.png"
       map_type 0
       interpolate 2
     } // image_map
   }
}

#declare Text2 =
function {
   pigment {
     image_map {
       png "Chronicles-of-Ziklag-Blur.png"
       map_type 0
       interpolate 2
     } // image_map
   }
}


#declare T3 =
function {
   Text1(x,y,z).hf*.85 + Text2(x,y,z).hf*.15
}


#declare CZ =
height_field {

   function 4800, 1600 {
     T3(x,y,z)
   }
   water_level .25
   smooth
   hollow
}

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Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> Nice effect!
> ;-)
> Paolo

Thanks!

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> The term *awesome*  comes to mind but it has already been used for another 
> image above  ;-)
> 
> Very nice work!!

Thanks!

> Are those tiny crinkles artefacts from the hfs?

Indeed.  They are quite visible when rendered at higher resolutions, but 
at this size it doesn't look too bad.

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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> This is a little graphic I did for a friend of mine.  It's not 
> complicated but I'm happy with the result, so I thought I'd share it. 
> Yes, the lens flare was done in Photoshop (but it is my own macro!).
> 
> To create the embossed text, I created two 16-bit grayscales--one with 
> crisp text and a second with the text blurred.  I brought them into POV 
> as two different functions and blended them in a third, from which I 
> created an HF.
> 
> Kirk Andrews
> www.tektonart.com
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

I hear it got burned with fire.

Regards,
John
(Ziklag, that is)

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I think it's pretty cool.  I've always wondered about a good way to do beveled
text... and now I know ;)

btw I checked out your website... cool stuff :)

--
Dan
GoofyGraffix.com

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Kirk Andrews:

> Since you begged...

Thank you. Bedankt. Merci. Danke.

Greetings :))

Thorsten

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