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12 Jul 2025 10:54:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My first try  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 6 Oct 2000 17:26:43
Message: <39de4393$1@news.povray.org>
"Olivier Rougeron" <oro### [at] eraware-softcom> wrote in message
news:39dd8850@news.povray.org...
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| Perhaps a little bevel on the letter to grab the light, but... how to do
| this ? (it's a text object)

A few things I know of to bevel text for use in POV-Ray.
SoftText: http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html (use the povray link
there)
AC3D: http://tina.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html
Elefont: http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/Elefont.htm

| can I do this effect with a glow object ?
| the sphere in the middle is transparent with a media emitter inside.

Sure, as long as you use either the latest MegaPovPlus or MegaPOV custom
versions, which obviously you are.
You'll still might need a light source (questionable when using radiosity)
and object (at least if you want actual structure), it seems they can affect
things in radiosity, which is good unless you were to use a large number of
them.  I've seen artifacts become prevalent.
The only real difficulty (if that could be said) is in getting a good
falloff and inner/outer size.  Only because they're a new thing to me.

Bob


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