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  Re: What has 8 legs & stinging tail? [~454K Mpg]  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 15 Sep 2000 01:01:53
Message: <39c1ad41@news.povray.org>
"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.142b3c10bde649079897d5@news.povray.org...
|
| For a really spectacular show, place a scorpion under an Ultraviolet
| light source...  They fluoresce, some species more spectacularly than
| others.
|
| Actually, this might be useful if you want to go scorpion spotting at
| night, simply take along a UV light source.

I saw that one of the pictures of at that web page was in black light.  Cool
stuff.

| Oh, and as far as the animation goes, I sort of like it, but that floor
| texture really interferes with seeing what their legs are doing (maybe
| this was the whole point of it)

You are exactly right, sort of.  It was only to show motion at first then I
realized it did mask the motion of the legs somewhat so I kept it that way.

Bob


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