> Fun huh, o-kay...
> That metal for the medal (ha) is so fine. Very nice. As with many such 3D
> things this one causes me to see an optical illusion, difficult to make
> out which way the imprint is going. That's just me though, I'm sure :)
> The lower words look great, the upper words have obvious separation
> fluctuations. Not a subliminal message about some sort of German WWII "SS"
> orginazation (boo, hiss) is it?

No, I would never do such a thing. I don't do politics when raytracing. ( you
know what you've hit a sore spot)

> The "IMP" part sure seems familiar ;)
> I take it you didn't use something like a curved text include or the
> program Elefont? You're a brave man if not.
>

I used the # fopen file feature. It goes like
"I",3.5,
"M",9.5,
"P",5.5
and so on. The figure after the letters is the width of each letter to center
it on the <0,0,0> point and manipulate them more easily. I can tell you, that
was a head-scratching thing.

Fabien

Thanks for all you comments and those that follow


>

> >
> > Here is the medal my new "employer" gave me.
> > "Should you or any of this newsgroup be caught doing great pictures with
> > POV, the POV team will disavow none of your known actions.
> >
> > This post will not self-destruct in five seconds.
> >
> > Good luck !"
> >
> > Just for fun but I had a hell of a time laying out the letters. They are

> > I somewhat changed the words on the medal (I am european). I hope that
> > you on the other side of the Atlantic won't be offended.
> > One last thing, this is not the final version, but comments on what to
> > add are welcomed.
> >

> >
> > By the way, this picture was rendered with X-povray (thanks Mark Gordon)
> >
> > [Image]
>
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