Here's the scene, a little bigger, with the changes you suggested.  I also took
out the other light source, so that the spotlights are the only light.  I really
like this one.  Thanks for the suggestion, David.

Kevin Jackson-Mead

David Fontaine wrote:

> 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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