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It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
my general disinterest in sports :)
The render is only part of the final picture and was tweaked
to match an existing astrophoto. The soccer ball was supposed
to be a quick CSG hack to avoid an involved model but still
took me a long time to get this crude version. It's based on
the intersection of a icosahedron with a dodecahedron but that
yields flat surface patches. I made the bright parts transparent
and placed a light source in the center to double_illuminate a
surrounding sphere which got me the rounded shape, but without
any kind of edge between the neighboring hexagons. For my
purposes I decided it was good enough to difference the shape
with slightly rotated versions of itself to isolate some
material along the edges.
For those who don't know there is actually a hexagonal storm
going on around Saturn's North Pole, which gave me the idea in
the first place. However, the isolated patches on a soccer ball
are pentagons so in the end that didn't quite pan out.
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Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfr de> wrote:
> For those who don't know there is actually a hexagonal storm
> going on around Saturn's North Pole, which gave me the idea in
> the first place.
Yes, that would be the polar vortex, which, according to /some/ of the people in
my country, is a figment of scientists' imagination.
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Am 15.07.2014 01:53, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
>
> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
> my general disinterest in sports :)
Quite fitting to do something celestial, too. Although a nova (a new
star) would have been more spot-on :D
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On 15-7-2014 4:05, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.07.2014 01:53, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
>> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
>> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
>>
>> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
>> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
>> my general disinterest in sports :)
>
> Quite fitting to do something celestial, too. Although a nova (a new
> star) would have been more spot-on :D
>
LOL
/if/ the Dutch had won, Titan would have been appropriate :-)
Thomas
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Am 15.07.2014 08:49, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> On 15-7-2014 4:05, clipka wrote:
>> Am 15.07.2014 01:53, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
>>> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
>>> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
>>>
>>> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
>>> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
>>> my general disinterest in sports :)
>>
>> Quite fitting to do something celestial, too. Although a nova (a new
>> star) would have been more spot-on :D
>>
>
> LOL
>
> /if/ the Dutch had won, Titan would have been appropriate :-)
You mean, because it looks like hell frozen over? :-P
Greetings from
* * * *
GERMANY
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On 15/07/14 09:54, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.07.2014 08:49, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>> /if/ the Dutch had won, Titan would have been appropriate :-)
>
> You mean, because it looks like hell frozen over? :-P
>
>
> Greetings from
>
> * * * *
> GERMANY
>
Congratulations to both countries.
John
(England :-( )
--
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children
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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 15.07.2014 08:49, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> > On 15-7-2014 4:05, clipka wrote:
> >> Am 15.07.2014 01:53, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> >>> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
> >>> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
> >>>
> >>> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
> >>> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
> >>> my general disinterest in sports :)
> >>
> >> Quite fitting to do something celestial, too. Although a nova (a new
> >> star) would have been more spot-on :D
> >>
> >
> > LOL
> >
> > /if/ the Dutch had won, Titan would have been appropriate :-)
>
> You mean, because it looks like hell frozen over? :-P
>
>
Thomas is probably thinking of John Varley's Titan. :-)
> Greetings from
>
> * * * *
> GERMANY
The good thing about being Scottish is that you never have to worry about
winning these sort of things. :-D
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Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
>
> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
> my general disinterest in sports :)
>
Nice!
And it is a virtue to turn moments of boredom into creativity.
Stephen
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On 15-7-2014 10:54, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.07.2014 08:49, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>> On 15-7-2014 4:05, clipka wrote:
>>> Am 15.07.2014 01:53, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
>>>> It has been too long since I did anything with POV-Ray, mostly my
>>>> free time now goes into taking and processing astrophotos.
>>>>
>>>> However, since I was forced to watch the World Cup by my Dutch
>>>> girlfriend I decided a quick render to gloat was in order, despite
>>>> my general disinterest in sports :)
>>>
>>> Quite fitting to do something celestial, too. Although a nova (a new
>>> star) would have been more spot-on :D
>>>
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> /if/ the Dutch had won, Titan would have been appropriate :-)
>
> You mean, because it looks like hell frozen over? :-P
Ha! If /we/ had met /you/, you would have eaten grass! :-P
No, Titan, because of the orange tinted atmosphere ;-)
Thomas
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>> Greetings from
>>
>> * * * *
>> GERMANY
>
> The good thing about being Scottish is that you never have to worry about
> winning these sort of things. :-D
Ditto for being English :-)
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