POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Road Surface Typeface : Re: Road Surface Typeface Server Time
30 Apr 2024 10:47:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Road Surface Typeface  
From: omniverse
Date: 15 Mar 2018 00:35:01
Message: <web.5aa9f7c2d2f6c4ee9c5d6c810@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "omniverse" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Scared me, being just a kid. Felt like I
> > was taking some kind of magic stuff off it.
>
> As well it should - everyone knows that's fairy dust, imbued with the breath of
> a unicorn.
> Scraping that little bit off has left a dark mark on your soul.
> Removing any more would have plunged that part of the world into eternal
> darkness.
>
> > And another more recent memory when I felt a little silly for almost stopping to
> > gather up overflow of those things when they striped the road near home. There
> > was so much in one place where it must have spilled, had that same desire to get
> > some of that magic again.
>
> And again the evil resurfaces!
>
>
> https://www.ebay.com/i/182302520850?chn=ps

I hadn't thought those glass spheroids would be anything less than perfect!
Well, very round anyway, for the purpose they're used for.

 Quote: Roundness 65 to 95%.

In a microscope they must look something like a POV-Ray sphere offset from
center of camera look_at.  ;-)


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