Poo. Well.. that only works in POV 3.5, whereas mine works equally well in
3.1 and 3.5.
Look, I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.. :-)

--

//Mahalis
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
--



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> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:51:00 -0500, "Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom>
wrote:
>
> > Well, I see 6 lines of code there, as opposed to:
> >
ctext("MaHaLiS","C:\Windows\Fonts\ocrb.ttf",0.125,yes,texture{pigment{Blue}
> > finish{reflection 0.25 metallic}},interior{})
>
> Oh, you want count?
> So let's simplify this 6 lines, remove not necessary space and group to
macro
>
> #macro Center(O)object{O translate-(max_extent(O)+min_extent(O))/2}#end
>
> is your macro shorten? :-)
> Note it works fine with all objects.
>
> Center(text{ttf "crystal.ttf" "Mahalis" 2 0})
> Center(sphere{0,1})
>
> ABX
> --
> #declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb
1}}
> union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{
//ABX
>
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)
}
> contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient
1}}//POV35

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