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16 Aug 2024 10:23:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Yet another starship  
From: Wolfgang Manousek
Date: 16 Feb 2002 05:58:41
Message: <3c6e3b61@news.povray.org>
I like it a lot - looks very alien. The texture and design make it very
organic ...



"Tom York" <tom### [at] compsocmanacuk> wrote in message
news:3c6d7e82$1@news.povray.org...
> I like starships, even if they are second only to glass spheres on
> chessboards in the cliche-stakes. So here is a megapov starship.
> It started life several years ago as a super-ellipsoid experiment
> gone wrong, and is now mainly blobs and sphere_sweeps. The surface
> pigment is, of course, the mighty crackle, with the crackle normal
> problem retained because I like the angular look it provides.
>
> The elliptical green aperture and the blue arcs are supposed to be
> ports for weapons, because if there's one thing you can be sure of
> in space, it's the need for an unreasonable amount of firepower!
>
> The background is just several layers of bozo pigment, and was based
> on Chris Colefax's excellent nebula include file.
>
> http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~tomy/graphics/ship04.jpg
>
> (~92K jpeg)
>
> Tom


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