"Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > If you're better at coloring and texturing than I, and you probably are, have at
> > it.
> > Ready-made prisms: (butterfly)
>
> As previously indicated, not better, but different.
>
> I rather liked this one despite the two following problems:
>
> 1. It was a rather obvious direction to go in.
>
> 2. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is going to play inside my head for the rest of the day.
>
> Thanks again to aQ who did all the real work and was kind enough to share it.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mike C.
>
> P.S. It might be fun if other folks took him up on his offer.  This could go in
> a lot of different creative directions.

It's as if you read my mind, I was thinking the same. It takes 2 things:

1. colorful idea from the creative faucet

2. ability to implement

I was thinking rainbow and hitting a brick wall of non-ability.

Any instruction you have on this would be most helpful, no doubt.


I added a center xy in haste yesterday producing 6th decimal results.
This is to the second same as the source, smaller, more precise files.

aQ

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"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
....
> I was thinking rainbow and hitting a brick wall of non-ability.
>
> Any instruction you have on this would be most helpful, no doubt.
....
> aQ

The "tinkered with" code is attached in the hope it will be helpful.
What I have is not so much ability as a combination of curiosity and time on my
hands.  I do a lot of work with fast rendering files so that I can benefit from
a high volume of "trial and error" type experiments.  Looking at as much example
code as I can get my hands on has, over time, gotten me to a point where there
are fewer catastrophic errors among the trials.  At the risk of sounding like
Bob Ross, some of my best stuff has been built on "happy accidents".

There are, of course, serious limitations to my approach.  My knowledge of how
to work with the subtleties of techniques that require long render times, such
as working with caustics and photon-intense scenes is sadly lacking.  I know
what I would have to do to overcome these limitations, but I frankly prefer to
"play" with POV-Ray than to "work" with it as perhaps I ought.

One of the great things about the POV-Ray community is that it gives one
exposure to a variety of techniques and approaches.  The part of the project
that you supplied would have been troublesome for me in that it lies in one of
the many areas neglected in my amusement-based approach to graphic skills
development.

The only idea that I would be so bold as pass along under the label of
"instruction" would be to look for chances to improve whatever "abilities" that
you would like to develop that are more like play than work.

Best Regards,
Mike C.

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error was only reported BY LINE after making the union,


File: bpath8.inc  Line: 68
Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
File: bpath8.inc  Line: 77
Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
File: bpath8.inc  Line: 623
Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
File: bpath8.inc  Line: 632
Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.


4 out of 112, were not closed in the source SVG.

 example:
zM395.73 40.23 C395.73 40.23 399.73 40.23 398.73 41.73 C397.73 43.23 394.73
43.23    394.73 43.23 z

update should follow

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"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> error was only reported BY LINE after making the union,
>
>
> File: bpath8.inc  Line: 68
> Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
> File: bpath8.inc  Line: 77
> Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
> File: bpath8.inc  Line: 623
> Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
> File: bpath8.inc  Line: 632
> Parse Warning: Prism not closed. Ignoring it.
>
>
> 4 out of 112, were not closed in the source SVG.
>
>  example:
> zM395.73 40.23 C395.73 40.23 399.73 40.23 398.73 41.73 C397.73 43.23 394.73
> 43.23    394.73 43.23 z
>
> update should follow

fixed bpath8.inc and butterfly.svg

should render previous image if I did everything right, doh.

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easier to upload a file than to render you a big one.

you'll need something like this file also if you havent been following the
thread.

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/attachment/%3Cweb.48727d485570783e246dc260%40news.povray.org%3E/ironbtrfl
y_.zip


fixes:
sync a bg color without clashing, hopefully
blue edge leak
centered 1.4 right
waves
color tinkerage
all 112 path8 subpaths accepted and rendering
etc etc

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fixes:
sync a bg color without clashing, hopefully
blue edge leak
centered 1.4 right
waves
color tinkerage
all 112 path8 subpaths accepted and rendering
etc etc

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you've heard of hypno-toad


hypno_IronButterly will have republican gov under control soon,
distribute freely!

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"Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4872236f55707835a8888d90@news.povray.org...
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>> If you're better at coloring and texturing than I, and you probably are, 
>> have at
>> it.
>> Ready-made prisms: (butterfly)
>
> As previously indicated, not better, but different.
>
> I rather liked this one despite the two following problems:
>
> 1. It was a rather obvious direction to go in.
>
> 2. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is going to play inside my head for the rest of 
> the day.
>
> Thanks again to aQ who did all the real work and was kind enough to share 
> it.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mike C.
>
> P.S. It might be fun if other folks took him up on his offer.  This could 
> go in
> a lot of different creative directions.
>

Excellent. I think this would look even better if the radial background did 
*not* extend beyond the wings (I get seriously dizy from watching the image 
to tell the truth).

Thomas

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path4 not differenced by path8
and
path8 with high transmit


caution:
term hypno may be well chosen

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OK now just make a picket sign out of this and carry with you. Hold it up when
encountering enemies, and like a Jedi say, kneel before you King.

Should work for the weak-minded. There are apparently many.


"Burnin' Down the House"

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