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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Aliens are coming!
Date: 5 Mar 2015 08:15:16
Message: <54f856e4@news.povray.org>
Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However, 
and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the 
POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine 
splendour coming to us from deep space.
-- 
Thomas


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 5 Mar 2015 09:33:31
Message: <54f8693b$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/03/2015 13:15, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
> splendour coming to us from deep space.

I like.
It reminds me of Ouroboros. I actually tried to grab it with my mouse to 
rotate it.

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     Stephen


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 5 Mar 2015 10:03:17
Message: <54f87035$1@news.povray.org>
On 5-3-2015 15:33, Stephen wrote:
> On 05/03/2015 13:15, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
>> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
>> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
>> splendour coming to us from deep space.
>
> I like.
> It reminds me of Ouroboros. I actually tried to grab it with my mouse to
> rotate it.
>
LOL

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Thomas


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From: James Holsenback
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 5 Mar 2015 11:15:18
Message: <54f88116@news.povray.org>
On 03/05/2015 08:15 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
> splendour coming to us from deep space.

like the scaly texture ... procedural or uv mapped


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 6 Mar 2015 03:18:04
Message: <54f962bc$1@news.povray.org>
On 5-3-2015 17:15, James Holsenback wrote:
>
> like the scaly texture ... procedural or uv mapped

uv mapped. I first made an orthographic shot in POV-Ray of a cells 
pattern; then I edited that image in GIMP and IC, making different 
versions, for use as pigment-, normal-, and finish-maps.

The ship itself is a highly asymmetrical, organic, object, originally 
loosely inspired by the alien ship in Alien and Prometheus. UV-edges 
have been pretty randomly chosen at first and later edited where necessary.

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Thomas


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From: FractRacer
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 6 Mar 2015 10:20:05
Message: <54f9c5a5$1@news.povray.org>
Le 05/03/2015 14:15, Thomas de Groot a écrit :
> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
> splendour coming to us from deep space.

Space aliens snail?
Good image, start for a story?

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Lionel
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 6 Mar 2015 10:57:03
Message: <54f9ce4f$1@news.povray.org>
On 6-3-2015 16:23, FractRacer wrote:
> Space aliens snail?
> Good image, start for a story?
>

Thanks; no story; just messing around (keeps me from the streets) ;-)

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Thomas


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From: MichaelJF
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 6 Mar 2015 15:05:00
Message: <web.54fa07483201126c98d8b0950@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
> splendour coming to us from deep space.
> --
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

that is a very good start indeed, but I see some options for improvements.
First, the structure looks great, but too many areas are lost in the shadows.
This seems to be a general problem with space scenes, since one has only one
light source (star) close by. May be a binary star can solve this. The orbiter
can still have a different color in this case. The second issue is the engine
glow. IMO it should have more turbulence at the edges. Otherwise really great.

Best regards,
Michael


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 7 Mar 2015 03:06:02
Message: <54fab16a$1@news.povray.org>
On 6-3-2015 21:00, MichaelJF wrote:
> that is a very good start indeed, but I see some options for improvements.
> First, the structure looks great, but too many areas are lost in the shadows.
> This seems to be a general problem with space scenes, since one has only one
> light source (star) close by. May be a binary star can solve this. The orbiter
> can still have a different color in this case. The second issue is the engine
> glow. IMO it should have more turbulence at the edges. Otherwise really great.
>

Thanks Michael. Shadows are a problem in (deep) space scenes. It the 
reason why I have put Neptune to the left of the image. It reflects part 
of the sunlight on the ship with a bluish tint. Making the ship of a 
lighter colour helps too.

I agree about the turbulence. I started to work on that and then got 
distracted by other things...


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Thomas


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From: Paolo Gibellini
Subject: Re: Aliens are coming!
Date: 9 Mar 2015 04:26:41
Message: <54fd5941$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote on 05/03/2015 14.15:
> Aliens are reported on a daily basis, in particular on YouTube. However,
> and invariably, they are shaky, blurred, indistinct things. Only the
> POV-Ray telescope is able to show alien ships in all their pristine
> splendour coming to us from deep space.
It seems an ancient and mysterious ship. I don't dare to imagine what 
strange kind of creatures may live (?) on it.
;-)
Paolo


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