Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
looks!

Bill

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Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
> chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
> looks!
> 
> Bill

Nice... looks like some kind of compound egg

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Stefan

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
> chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
> looks!
>
> Bill

cool. it looks like a good reptile scale texture too

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Ross wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:web.46cef6d482749dfc731f01d10@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
>>chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
>>looks!
>>
>>Bill
> 
> 
> cool. it looks like a good reptile scale texture too
> 
> 
And so how did you get the size of the pebbles to vary in scale like 
that?  It looks not quite random but interpolated.

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> And so how did you get the size of the pebbles to vary in scale like
> that?  It looks not quite random but interpolated.

Pretty simple actually - it's a bozo-based isosurface trace()ed with 20,000
spheres from its centre.

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.46cf327d6d4f464a852a77190@news.povray.org...
> Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
>> And so how did you get the size of the pebbles to vary in scale like
>> that?  It looks not quite random but interpolated.
>
> Pretty simple actually - it's a bozo-based isosurface trace()ed with 
> 20,000
> spheres from its centre.
>

Oooh! That's smart!!!

Thomas

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
> chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
> looks!

Wow, how'd you get the expanded polystyrene to hold up in those acidic
electroplating baths?  I've seen orange juice eat through that stuff.  Good
job!

;-)

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Cousin Ricky nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/26 01:26:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Argh, I'm very bored at work, so here's a random Friday afternoon glob of
>> chrome-finished expanded polystyrene. Watch out, it's heavier than it
>> looks!
> 
> Wow, how'd you get the expanded polystyrene to hold up in those acidic
> electroplating baths?  I've seen orange juice eat through that stuff.  Good
> job!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
That must be REALY cheap polystyrene! Or your orange juice was contaminated with 
acetone or toluene... I have drank orange juice and limonade in styrofoam cups 
without any problem. It can also hold wine, but, it give it a bad taste.

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you try to compress a mandelbrot 
landscape made of spheres just to 4 lines of pov code.
Warp

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Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Cousin Ricky nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/26 01:26:
> > Wow, how'd you get the expanded polystyrene to hold up in those acidic
> > electroplating baths?  I've seen orange juice eat through that stuff.  Good
> > job!
> >
> That must be REALY cheap polystyrene! Or your orange juice was contaminated
> with acetone or toluene... I have drank orange juice and limonade in styrofoam
> cups without any problem. It can also hold wine, but, it give it a bad taste.

I'd be very worried if acetone contamination were a common problem.

Hmm, electroplating with Ni in a Watts bath needs a temperature of about

never mind dissolve. I agree about the orange juice though. :)

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> Hmm, electroplating with Ni in a Watts bath needs a temperature of about

> never mind dissolve. I agree about the orange juice though. :)

I saw a guy being interviewed on a car show who chromes
restored plastic, even glued together bits. He paints it with
some sort of expensive silver paint, then electro-plates with
copper, then nickel, then chrome.  I think the copper may
help dissipate the heat.

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