Kevin Jackson-Mead wrote:

> Greetings everyone.
>
> I am new to POV and to raytracing, and it's been a while since I've
> posted anything to a newsgroup (and first time posting using Netscape's
> news thing), so please excuse any screw-ups.  Attached is a little
> object I made that was inspired by the cover art of Douglas R.
> Hofstadter's book "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid".  As
> far as I know, he invented them for his book (according to what he says
> about it, anyway).  He took a piece of wood and sawed the appropriate
> bits.  Neat idea and a wonderful book, if anyone is looking for
> something to read.

Welcome! As has been mentioned, a while back a lot of people were making
these. They're easy to make in POV, but look fairly hard to make in real
life...

> Anyway, I was thinking of trying to come up with a macro to make
> trip-lets out of any three letters, and I was wondering if something
> like that already exists.  I imagine not, but I thought I'd ask first.
> I doubt it would be a very useful macro, but I'm planning on using it to
> teach myself how to do them.

The experience is valuable rather or not the macro is. If you want to learn
some advanced POVing, just sit on your ass for twelve hours a day coding
scenes and ignore any RL annoyances...

> Comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated (otherwise I
> wouldn't be posting, I guess.)

Hmm... the way the box is lighted, it's hard to tell where edges are. How
'bout instead of a red box and colored planes, a white box and white planes
with colored lights? That way the different faces of the box will be diferent
colors.

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