POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : sphere Server Time
13 Aug 2024 15:31:49 EDT (-0400)
  sphere (Message 11 to 15 of 15)  
<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Initial 10 Messages
From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: sphere
Date: 16 Sep 1998 07:14:36
Message: <35ff8f8c.0@news.povray.org>
Same here ;-)

Sad isn't it? ;-)

I'm sitting here (and have been for the last 4 hours) stairing at my
computer, 3DSMAX and Riven boxes, my real-life "Elwood" figurine, several
CD-R and CD-RWs, two massive Escher prints, my scanner and printer, a
decoded Playstation Lara Croft animation from TR-II, an 8-inch high set of
3DSMAX tutorials and manuals (oh the upgrade tromurs!) and a stack of CDs
numbering about 50. (listening to Chroma Key, http://www.chromakey.com)

WHAT AM I DOING WITH MYSELF WHEN THE BEACH, SUN, SAND AND OCEAN IS JUST A 50
METRE WALK AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yet, strangely, I fell comforted by my room [SLAP!!!!!!!!] "GET A
GRIP!!!" :-)

--
Lance.

P.S.  I haven't been able to receive any emails for the last 4-5 days (and I
still can't), so if you've mailed me and I didn't reply, that's why!

---
For the latest MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone


Post a reply to this message

From: Remco de Korte
Subject: Re: sphere
Date: 16 Sep 1998 09:36:39
Message: <35FFAE5D.8F6992F4@xs4all.nl>
Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Same here ;-)
> 
> Sad isn't it? ;-)
> 
> I'm sitting here (and have been for the last 4 hours) stairing at my
> computer, 3DSMAX and Riven boxes, my real-life "Elwood" figurine,
> several
> CD-R and CD-RWs, two massive Escher prints, my scanner and printer, a
> decoded Playstation Lara Croft animation from TR-II, an 8-inch high
> set of
> 3DSMAX tutorials and manuals (oh the upgrade tromurs!) and a stack of
> CDs
> numbering about 50. (listening to Chroma Key, http://www.chromakey.com
> )
> 
> WHAT AM I DOING WITH MYSELF WHEN THE BEACH, SUN, SAND AND OCEAN IS
> JUST A 50
> METRE WALK
> AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> And yet, strangely, I fell comforted by my room [SLAP!!!!!!!!] "GET A
> GRIP!!!" :-)
> 
> --
> Lance.
> 

Oh, man, I could do with some sunny beach!
I was just of on a holiday which basically came down to a weeks worth of
rain and I must admit I was glad I could return to my digital addiction.

But if you could render me some sunshine I'd be most pleased ;-)

Remco


Post a reply to this message

From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: sphere
Date: 16 Sep 1998 14:12:27
Message: <35fff17b.0@news.povray.org>
Remco de Korte wrote in message <35FFAE5D.8F6992F4@xs4all.nl>...
>
>Oh, man, I could do with some sunny beach!
>I was just of on a holiday which basically came down to a weeks worth of
>rain and I must admit I was glad I could return to my digital addiction.
>
>But if you could render me some sunshine I'd be most pleased ;-)
>
>Remco
>


I went to the seaside this summer with an experiment in my head. I went
there with a group of computer illiterates (i.e. normal ordinary sane
people), I had my guitar and I wanted to see how long could I stand without
my computer. Well, I had to take this for ten horrible sunny days and when I
came back I had filled about fifty pages of POV code in a notebook, I had
grown two more centimeters of beard, and my hands were trembling <G>. The
guys were bored to death with Bill Gates jokes and "you know you've been
raytracing too long if..." stuff and couldn't dig why this nutter had
collected about 500 seashells just to try to write a generalized .inc (I
gave up on that), whatever that is. They all agreed he needed a nice white
room in a quiet place with a lot of trees and nice calm doctors all around
the place. I guess this says it all...

Peter


Post a reply to this message

From: Ken
Subject: Re: sphere
Date: 16 Sep 1998 14:28:11
Message: <35FFF578.C181215E@pacbell.net>
I don't look out the window at the sky anymore because it no longer
looks realistic and "they" won't allow me to change it. Sigh !

Ken


Peter Popov wrote:

> I went to the seaside this summer with an experiment in my head. I went
> there with a group of computer illiterates (i.e. normal ordinary sane
> people), I had my guitar and I wanted to see how long could I stand without
> my computer. Well, I had to take this for ten horrible sunny days and when I
> came back I had filled about fifty pages of POV code in a notebook, I had
> grown two more centimeters of beard, and my hands were trembling <G>. The
> guys were bored to death with Bill Gates jokes and "you know you've been
> raytracing too long if..." stuff and couldn't dig why this nutter had
> collected about 500 seashells just to try to write a generalized .inc (I
> gave up on that), whatever that is. They all agreed he needed a nice white
> room in a quiet place with a lot of trees and nice calm doctors all around
> the place. I guess this says it all...
>
> Peter


Post a reply to this message

From: Jerry Anning
Subject: Re: sphere
Date: 16 Sep 1998 17:05:21
Message: <36001A07.70B3B525@dhol.com>
Ken wrote:
> 
> I don't look out the window at the sky anymore because it no longer
> looks realistic and "they" won't allow me to change it. Sigh !

From "Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws" by Manfred Schroeder (1990):

"Color Plate 5 shows a photograph, taken by the author, of a natural
cloud that rivals the realism of computer-generated nebulosities."

Jerry Anning
cle### [at] dholcom


Post a reply to this message

<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Initial 10 Messages

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.