You should not need email server or other things from your provider, just
set your newsreader to use news.povray.org as newsserver and it should
work.  No provider should have the povray newsgroup on it's newsserver.
See the postings in povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions for
details.

Furthermore it should rarely be necessary to post pictures larger than
100k.  When looking trough older posts you will recognize that most
pictures posted here are smaller.  If you want to show a higher quality
(png) pict, you might consider putting it on a website instead and posting
the link.

Nice picture BTW, i remember some similar pictures, not with fibonacci,
using megapov's eval_pigment to display pictures.  Who is Lea?

Christoph

*****

Well . . . for whatever reason, when I am in this town, using this ISP, I
can't
upload without losing the handshake or being disconnected.  Now I don't
have that problem with any other ISP (I am on the road a lot) and I don't
have it with AOL.  But I cannot figure out how to use the AOL dial-up with
newz-groups . . . they have there own list of them and it doesn't include
POV.
I have to do some sort of TCP thing and use their modems but I don't know
how to go about it.

  I understand about the 100K or so size . . . and I agree . . . stashing
them on
a web-page and providing a link would be the best way.  Just not enough time
in the day to work and play . . . and at this point, work is interferring :)

  And in this case, the pic sure does suffer . . . and I want to speak to
Sander
on this too . . . he wanted to see more spheres . . . that's fine, however,
it is
all a balancing act.  More spheres means smaller dia ones and at some point,
the visual effect is lost when the spheres are too small.  Thus . . . the
reason
for rendering at 1280 for these . . . that was the point where they still
looked
good.

  And . . . I have also imaged to other patterns . . . tightly packed hex
patterns
for example.  But the thing about fibonacci is - it seems to enhance the
natural
curves when a photo contains them.  Notice how the shape of the eyes and the
cheek and hair all seem to follow a series of spheres . . . any curved
object
can find a series of spheres that fits it and the eye is able to see that.
Hex
patterns tend to emphasize lines and diagonals and hide the natural curves
and actuall distort the eyes.  These spheres actually seem to follow them.
So, when I saw the first image that I traced . . . I was hooked . . . just
seems
the way to go when depicting nature.  I will also experiment with Tor's
anti-
blobs as soon as I can finger them out.

  Did this shot for a friend . . . this is an old pic of a girl he once met
in France.
He's very pleased with how it came out . . . I've been promising to do
something
for him with it for a long time.

  Thanks for the comments . . .

Y

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