No offense taken, however, you are talking about something from a couple
years ago and I'm not sure if I'll ever do anymore with it. You've gone
and wasted some good advice ;)
Btw the pins are a lathe, and I didn't even do a good guess on the
dimensions. Went for a "looks right to me" way of doing things while
putting numbers in. And as we all probably know, not the best way to go
when modelling real life objects.
Thanks for your time regardless Thomas.


Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> I like the image too but I have a few suggestions if you don't mind. The pins are
> a little too squat and a little too fat, they look a little like cartoon bowling
> pins. Also there is nothing behind the pins! What I mean is the area behind the
> pins where you would usually see some simple machinery which catch and reset the
> pins and where the ball falls into and get returned to the player. Anyway, don't
> mean to offend, other than that, very nice I like the wood texture!
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> > I've done the bowling type scene before, very compressed image at:
> >  http://members.aol.com/versecurse/lbowling.jpg
> > and someone else here at the did another also a while back, much better as
> > I recall. Might try seeking them out in the binaries.images group if you
> > can search far enough back.
> > If you want to see the pov scene file (not a moray file) for mine go ahead
> > and email me via the address below.
> >
> > Tim Hutcheson wrote:
> > >
> > > As a newbie to 3D raytracing, I have been using a bowling pin design to
> > > explore sPatch, Moary and PovRay.  I'm satisfied that I understand the
> > > mechanics of using the software but would like to do a more realistic
> > > rendering of the surface of the bowling pin now.  I see lots of
> > > possibilities, of course, but which ones lead to good realism?  I'm thinking
> > > of the color plate in the popular book on Renderman (name of book escapes me
> > > right now) as an example.  This rendering is rather striking (pardon the
> > > pun) as it includes just a tinge of yellow/off-white and numerous dents,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Has anyone reproduced this image?  I would love to see the sample code.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Hutcheson
> > > w4l### [at] bellsouthnet
> >
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