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From: Flux
Date: 5 May 2002 15:51:24
Message: <3CD58D77.25B2FFE9@duratechindustries.net>
You know, now that you mention it, I guess I hadn't even realized that the
"floor" is a checkered plane.  So in hindsight, I probably -should- have made
them (or at least one sphere) reflecting instead of refracting... Heh.

-Law

Brian Elliott wrote:

> In article <3CD33CB8.FB449EE9@duratechindustries.net>,
> flu### [at] duratechindustriesnet says...
> > You think so?  I really dig glass spheres... there's just something
> > beautiful about them...  But as they say, variety is the spice of
> > life...
> >
> > -Law
> >
> > "Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> >
> > > you wanted REFLECTING spheres not REFRACTING ones.
> > >
> > > :P
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rick
>
> I think Rick was just having a humorous dig.  Note one tongue-poke
> emoticon!
>

> over a chequerboard plane.  You got the chequerboard, but...
>
> You used transparent/refracting spheres and focal blur.  These are much
> more advanced concepts, so you failed the "newbie test".  What's more,
> you even used an advanced object such as an architectural staircase,
> combined with natural object placement, ie. the resting spheres.  ... and
> that curly thing?!?
>
> Producing such good work as this just will not do if you want to be
> called a "newbie".  Go back and start again!  :-p  :-)
>
> Cheers,
>     Brian.
> --


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