This is my 1st post here, I hope that I do everything ok (attachments 
settings)

Thoes are icons for my commercial program (files scanner).
Ofcourse in program they would be smaller :)

a1.bmp "wizard" - cone differenced with smaller cone, 2 cylinders making 
Wand, and Media for "magic glow"
Texture is too small - that resluted in ugly pixelized of stars, but I 
noticed it after my 640x640 5 hours rendering was finished, so I will 
correct it next time. This is maybe not very notacible, but blue-yellow 
stars texutre is a material may, "stars" area has reflection, while "blue" 
area has normal (bumps) + phong. I like this image most.
400 lines + 220 in include file (radiosity+bacground)


a2.bmp "star" - this is a mesh. I have a problem - star is way to sharp and 
I'm thinking of some way of blurring it.
150 lines + 220 in include file (radiosity+bacground)


a3.bmp "key" - key "ear"/"head" is  made from cone, torus, diff. cone.
"teeth" is intersection of 2 Polygons. First is like :
| |
| >
| >
'/  etc
and second is rotate by x*90 to first one
230 lines + 220 in include file (radiosity+bacground)


a1.bmp took 5 h on 1,7 GHz 640x480 AA - due to media and to high quality 
radiosity. Radiosity in all images is not only radiosity settings, but 
alsow - scene is sorrounded by "sphere" of about 100 light sources - they 
are making ambience, but in difference to i.e. sky_sphere + ambient - this 
ambient light DO effect specular/phong. Effect of this "light sphere" is 
not very notacible, but at last I am honest ;)

Making all images took me about 20 h to write (about 3-5 h when NOT 
including test rendering time) in 

all commenst are welcome


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Attachments:
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Preview of image 'a1.jpg'

Preview of image 'a2.jpg'

Preview of image 'a3.jpg'

These look nice.  My own experience with using POV for creating icons has
been disappointing.  By the time I shrank the images down to the required
size the "detail" actually became "noise" and made the icons hard to
understand.  I tried using a paint program to sharpen the images and reduce
the number of colours, but in the end I had to give it up in favour of a
more "cartoonish" look.  I hope you have better luck.

"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <raf### [at] raf256com> wrote in message
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> This is my 1st post here, I hope that I do everything ok (attachments
> settings)
>

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"Spock" <spo### [at] nospamcom> wrote in news:3d395014$1@news.povray.org

> These look nice.  My own experience with using POV for creating icons
> has been disappointing.  By the time I shrank the images down to the
> required size the "detail" actually became "noise" and made the icons
> hard to understand.  I tried using a paint program to sharpen the
> images and reduce the number of colours, but in the end I had to give
> it up in favour of a more "cartoonish" look.  I hope you have better
> luck. 

I use it on buttons, so they are 44x44 and fullcolor. Ofcourse I use 
antialais. The dont look noise, and all are nice... maybe instead of last 
(key) because key is little too dark on greay background. 

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> kolejny atak na centrale TPSA
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> I use it on buttons, so they are 44x44 and fullcolor. Ofcourse I use
> antialais. The dont look noise, and all are nice... maybe instead of last
> (key) because key is little too dark on greay background.

I have the best results for icons when I render them at their icon size (ie
44x44) with heavy AA (+A0.0 +AM2 +R4)

-tgq

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