As conclusion just an image showing the result in a scene.

The cobbled pavement and buildings are five simple boxes,

The clock is all macro to place properly the numbers, graduations and
needles upon a <h,m,s> vector

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That's very good!!!!!

How did you do the clock?


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> As conclusion just an image showing the result in a scene.
>
> The cobbled pavement and buildings are five simple boxes,
>
> The clock is all macro to place properly the numbers, graduations and
> needles upon a <h,m,s> vector
>
>


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whey good

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"Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote:
> That's very good!!!!!
>
> How did you do the clock?
>

Thanks for your comments ;)

The clock is made of several macros. I will put them on my website when
finished.

At first I wanted to have the needles of St Dunstan church's clock properly
set depending of the time and matching the lighting (which follow this time
using the macro sunpos.inc provided with povray).

Then I also made the macro to get the number and graduation at the right
place, have choice between Arabic or Roman numbers etc.

Currently, the number from (1 to 12) are stored in an array in Roman and
arabic with the necessary translation shift to get them centerd on the
middle.

But it is a bit stupid way as I only can use twelves numbers. So I cannot
use them to put number for tenth of seconds or any other circular
graduation for something else than hours.

So I am changing it to use the arabic to roman converter of David L. Kutzler
(http://objects.povworld.org/binaries/romannumbers.inc)

I found this in the documentation about text justification

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9.1.1.7  How can I find the size of a text object?
"How can I find the size of a text object / center text / justify text?"

You can use the min_extent() and max_extent() functions (new in POV-Ray 3.5)
to get the corners of the bounding box of any object. While this is
sometimes not the actual size of the object, for text objects this should
be fairly accurate, enough to do alignment of the text object.

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the whole set of macros will be havailable on my website when finished
(http://www.nedap.fr/stdunstan/index.htm). It is a starting web site so, for
now i just have here some links and in the technical topics the way i use
to get a lighting following the time of the day.

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StDunstan wrote:

> As conclusion just an image showing the result in a scene.
> 
> The cobbled pavement and buildings are five simple boxes,
>



Lovely!

if

religion = opiate of the masses

and so

draperies = opiate of painters

then

brickwork = opiate of raytracers

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Ok, thank you for the information.


news:web.413889b49d4a91c9d99800df0@news.povray.org...
> "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote:
> > That's very good!!!!!
> >
> > How did you do the clock?
> >
>
> Thanks for your comments ;)
>
> The clock is made of several macros. I will put them on my website when
> finished.
>
> At first I wanted to have the needles of St Dunstan church's clock
properly
> set depending of the time and matching the lighting (which follow this
time
> using the macro sunpos.inc provided with povray).
>
> Then I also made the macro to get the number and graduation at the right
> place, have choice between Arabic or Roman numbers etc.
>
> Currently, the number from (1 to 12) are stored in an array in Roman and
> arabic with the necessary translation shift to get them centerd on the
> middle.
>
> But it is a bit stupid way as I only can use twelves numbers. So I cannot
> use them to put number for tenth of seconds or any other circular
> graduation for something else than hours.
>
> So I am changing it to use the arabic to roman converter of David L.
Kutzler
> (http://objects.povworld.org/binaries/romannumbers.inc)
>
> I found this in the documentation about text justification
>
> **************************
>
> 9.1.1.7  How can I find the size of a text object?
> "How can I find the size of a text object / center text / justify text?"
>
> You can use the min_extent() and max_extent() functions (new in POV-Ray
3.5)
> to get the corners of the bounding box of any object. While this is
> sometimes not the actual size of the object, for text objects this should
> be fairly accurate, enough to do alignment of the text object.
>
> ***************************
>
> the whole set of macros will be havailable on my website when finished
> (http://www.nedap.fr/stdunstan/index.htm). It is a starting web site so,
for
> now i just have here some links and in the technical topics the way i use
> to get a lighting following the time of the day.
>
>
>
>


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StDunstan wrote:

> As conclusion just an image showing the result in a scene.
> 
> The cobbled pavement and buildings are five simple boxes,
> 
> The clock is all macro to place properly the numbers, graduations and
> needles upon a <h,m,s> vector

Hi 

What is your website url?

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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