An image made with POV-Ray by Gilles Tran is currently shown as "Today's 
featured picture" on the main page of the English Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/

A link to the scene for rendering the image is available on the image page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800.png

The image was originally made in August 2004, has been put up for free 
use by Gilles on Wikipedia in early 2006 and was accepted as a featured 
picture in April.

Christoph

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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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> An image made with POV-Ray by Gilles Tran is currently shown as "Today's 
> featured picture" on the main page of the English Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/
>
> A link to the scene for rendering the image is available on the image 
> page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800.png

    I've never seen this image by Gilles before, but the scaling is all 
wrong to me. The tall glass to the left should be as tall as the red wine 
glass and yet, it's only 2 inches away. (Unless of course, Gilles is 
meticulous in his study of such drinking vessels, and that they are indeed, 
correct!)   ;)

     Just my tuppence worth.

     ~Steve~




> Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> An image made with POV-Ray by Gilles Tran is currently shown as
> "Today's featured picture" on the main page of the English Wikipedia:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/
> 
> A link to the scene for rendering the image is available on the image
> page:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800.png
> 

This is a good example of the high quality output POV-Ray creates.

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:44d0e4be@news.povray.org...
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>    I've never seen this image by Gilles before, but the scaling is all 
> wrong to me. The tall glass to the left should be as tall as the red wine 
> glass and yet, it's only 2 inches away. (Unless of course, Gilles is 
> meticulous in his study of such drinking vessels, and that they are 
> indeed, correct!)   ;)
>

Gilles posted that image perhaps more than a year ago, demonstrating the 
differences in "anti-aliasing and clipping" between POV 3.6 and POV 3.5 (so 
it was actually 2 images, iirc, one pre-clipped, one post-clipped).  This 
version looks really nice (no visible artifacts), so I have to wonder if 
it's actually a shrunken version of the actual render.

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"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message 
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> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:44d0e4be@news.povray.org...
>>
>>    I've never seen this image by Gilles before, but the scaling is all 
>> wrong to me. The tall glass to the left should be as tall as the red wine 
>> glass and yet, it's only 2 inches away. (Unless of course, Gilles is 
>> meticulous in his study of such drinking vessels, and that they are 
>> indeed, correct!)   ;)
>>
>
> Gilles posted that image perhaps more than a year ago, demonstrating the 
> differences in "anti-aliasing and clipping" between POV 3.6 and POV 3.5 
> (so it was actually 2 images, iirc, one pre-clipped, one post-clipped).

 Ah, I see. Damn, wish I'd seen it back then - somehow I missed this one. 
<shrug>


 This
> version looks really nice (no visible artifacts), so I have to wonder if 
> it's actually a shrunken version of the actual render.

   Well, seeing as I've never seen this image before, or the original 
render, yes, it does look like it to me. It kind of looks too 'tight', and 
maybe too good. I'm ok with that though, it looks 'right'.

   Excellent image and now I want to try and copy it in one shot, but I fear 
that's a no go with time/work restrictions atm.

   ~Steve~


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