I tried it, and it really looks better.  (Its attached)

I ended up going with Bob's suggestion of the clipped plane and put a white
sphere behind the camera, and played with its radius till it looked ok.  It
did white out some of the stand just a little bit, but I am not too
concerned with that (I would guess if I moved it back some it wouldn't do
that as much).

Anyways, thanks for all the info!!!  I really want to learn POV-Ray (I even
printed the manual - all 320 pages :).

Cman

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Ken wrote in message <36C83678.57539086@pacbell.net>...
>Colorman (Kraxmel) wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to explain!!!
>>
>> I did notice the line there (more so after your post), and it really
>> bothered me.  I just thot it might be a glich in the program or something
>> that caused the line in the horizon from the plane to show up in the
stand,
>> but now I understand AND it makes sense!!!
>>
>> I tried what you suggested, and it was much better!  I also tried a box
>> instead of the plane (<-12,2,-12>,<12,0,12>), and except for the stand
not
>> standing out as much, I like it better.
>>
>> Neways, thank you very much for the help!!!  I learned something from it!
>>
>> Cman
>
>There are times a reflective metallic surface like that can bennifit
>in appearence from having an object, wall, or what ever back behind
>the cameras position. The color black does little to add it self to
>reflective objects. I like using a large white sphere or cylinder.
>The curvature of the surface makes it so it doesn't reflect as an
>object in the back ground but will add it's color to the scene like
>a photographers backdrop or shaded fill lights will. Try it and you
>will see a whole new metallic object before the camera you didn't
>know you had.
>
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>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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