Go into a dark room at night and shine a pen light at a piece of leaded
crystal.
Brendan

Paul Jones wrote:

> Yeah, I always seem to have problems getting glass to be clear,
> refractive and visible, all at the same time. I think that I need to
> work on the lighting and the actual definition of the glass texture. I
> wish I could look at a piece of leaded crystal, floating in a black
> space illuminated by on or two lights so I could see first hand what it
> *should* look like.
>
> -paul
>
> Francois Labreque wrote:
> >
> > Paul Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > comments?
> >
> > There's only one problem to an otherwise amazing picture.  It's very
> > hard to differentiate between the "black" pieces and the "white" pieces.
> >
> > --
> > Francois Labreque | It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it
> >     flabreque     | is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
> >         @         | the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a
> >    videotron.ca   | warning, it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in
> >                   | motion.
> >                                - Stolen from Badger's .sig file
>
> --
>
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> Paul Daniel Jones
> The Pennslyvania State University
>
> pdj### [at] psuedu
> http://research.chem.psu.edu/glassgrp/paul
>
>        C            The way is near, but men
>      // \           seek it afar. It is in the
>     N    N          easy things, but men seek it
>     |    ||         in the difficult things.
>     C    C          -Menicius
>      \\  /
>        C
> --------------------------------------------------}

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