I've made my first sale of a product on Zazzle with an image made with POV-Ray!

The tie was specifically designed for the parent company of the logistics
company that I do computer work for.  The tile pattern is made up of their logo
(that "W" shape made up of purple and B&W gradient trapezoids and blank spaces
of the same shape.)  The taper effect was created by simply image mapping the
tile pattern on to a box and rotating it about the x-axis. The glass globe with
purple continents was suggested by the company web site, where the top half of a
somewhat simpler version of such an object appears in header section.

I ordered one copy of the tie (partly for promotional use and partly just to see
a physical sample) and sent it off to the CEO as a gift.  Less than a week
later, the Chicago sales office purchased a dozen!  If you take shipping costs
into account, I'm now less than two dollars in the hole for the overall
enterprise.  ;-)

Most importantly, the event has renewed my enthusiasm for trying to design
things someone might actually buy.  My "Zazzle Store" is currently pretty much
non-existent except for what the site creates automatically, so I suppose that
creating some graphics to spruce it up should be my next step.

Here's a link to where the tie can be seen on Zazzle:

http://www.zazzle.com/cgl_tie-151095866771980118

It's a "private" listing, since there's very little chance anyone who doesn't
work for the company will want to buy a tie covered with the company logo.

I just wanted to share this with folks and take a moment to (once again) say
thanks to the POV-Ray team.

Best Regrads,
Mike C.

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