"Simon J. Cambridge" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Thank you Thomas, for the welcome and the praise. I am a long time lurker,
> occasionally peering over the wall but never brave enough to post (not until I
> had something I felt I could post, that is).

Well, in that case, you owe us a reflective sphere on a checkered plane. ;-)

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On 1/29/2016 4:22 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> "Simon J. Cambridge" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> Thank you Thomas, for the welcome and the praise. I am a long time lurker,
>> occasionally peering over the wall but never brave enough to post (not until I
>> had something I felt I could post, that is).
>
> Well, in that case, you owe us a reflective sphere on a checkered plane. ;-)
>
>
Indeed he does. ;)

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     Stephen

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On 1/28/2016 4:44 PM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
> I would be really interested to know what other pov-ray users thought of my
> efforts.

Not bad. ;)


I wish I could do as well.

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     Stephen

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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> On 1/29/2016 4:22 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> > "Simon J. Cambridge" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >> Thank you Thomas, for the welcome and the praise. I am a long time lurker,
> >> occasionally peering over the wall but never brave enough to post (not until I
> >> had something I felt I could post, that is).
> >
> > Well, in that case, you owe us a reflective sphere on a checkered plane. ;-)
> >
> >
> Indeed he does. ;)
>
> --
>
> Regards
>      Stephen

No sooner the word...

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Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 1/28/2016 11:44 AM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
> > Hello to all. First time poster here.
> >
> > I hope I am right in thinking that this is the best place to post this.
> >
> > Here is an image I created as an adjunct to a trilogy of fantasy novels I have
> > written. I am not sure how many people have ever done this, but I decided to use
> > pov-ray (long time user) to create all the illustrations for the accompanying
> > website (www.landofthefirst.com). I also used pov-ray to create the book cover
> > art.
> >
> > I would be really interested to know what other pov-ray users thought of my
> > efforts.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Simon J. Cambridge
> >
> > PS. How do you create actual links on a message here?
> >
> >
> >
>
> I have to agree that your works are diverse, fitting a central theme.
> I'm not sure I like the textures you are using though. They look too
> washed out and faded. Could it be a gamma issue maybe?
>
>
> Mike

Hi Mike,

Any image in particular? I tended to vary just about everything when rendering.

Cheers,

Simon.

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On 1/29/2016 5:20 PM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> On 1/29/2016 4:22 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>> "Simon J. Cambridge" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>>>> Thank you Thomas, for the welcome and the praise. I am a long time lurker,
>>>> occasionally peering over the wall but never brave enough to post (not until I
>>>> had something I felt I could post, that is).
>>>
>>> Well, in that case, you owe us a reflective sphere on a checkered plane. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed he does. ;)
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>       Stephen
>
> No sooner the word...
>

Well done. Welcome to the club. :-)


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     Stephen

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On 1/29/2016 12:28 PM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
>> I have to agree that your works are diverse, fitting a central theme.
>> I'm not sure I like the textures you are using though. They look too
>> washed out and faded. Could it be a gamma issue maybe?
>>
>>
>> Mike
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Any image in particular? I tended to vary just about everything when rendering.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>

Most of the images I looked at appear kind of pastel or washed out. Are 
you developing on a Mac?


Mike

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Beautiful work! One of my favorites is your "Forest of Kannim"-- very ethereal,
kind of a (rendered version) of reality + fantasy, combined. A beautiful
concept, very nicely designed and realized. It reminds me of some of the best
Disney pre-production artwork, done by the old 'masters' there.

Welcome to the newsgroups!


Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> Most of the images I looked at appear kind of pastel or washed out. Are
> you developing on a Mac?
>

They appear OK to me, on my CRT monitor-- good contrast, saturated colors, etc.
(Every now and then, I re-check my monitor to make sure that it's behaving
correctly-- especially the display gamma. Just a suggestion.) I had trouble last
year, viewing a PNG image in a newsgroup posting, thinking it was too *dark* ;
it turned out that I hadn't re-calibrated my monitor in awhile.

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Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Most of the images I looked at appear kind of pastel or washed out. Are
> you developing on a Mac?

They look fine to me.  My laptop panel is hard to adjust and viewing angle
dependent, but at the angle that I've adjusted my panel for, the colors appear
quite rich.

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On 29-1-2016 19:55, Stephen wrote:
> On 1/29/2016 5:20 PM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
>> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>>> On 1/29/2016 4:22 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>>> "Simon J. Cambridge" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>>>>> Thank you Thomas, for the welcome and the praise. I am a long time
>>>>> lurker,
>>>>> occasionally peering over the wall but never brave enough to post
>>>>> (not until I
>>>>> had something I felt I could post, that is).
>>>>
>>>> Well, in that case, you owe us a reflective sphere on a checkered
>>>> plane. ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Indeed he does. ;)
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>       Stephen
>>
>> No sooner the word...
>>
>
> Well done. Welcome to the club. :-)
>
>

[aside] that guy has the right spirit, hm? [/aside]

-- 
Thomas

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