Failed? Heck no. Those are much better than the
cat eye marbles I modeled years ago. Some suggestions:
Make the center color object a little smaller, since the
glass sphere acts as a magnifier. Maybe a little more twist
too. Also, as I remember them, the center color swirl is
transparent, or was for some of them. Care to share the
center shape? I modeled those back with POV 3.0 and
just used untwisted elongated crossed discs for the
center color.

Harold


"Richard Dault" <rda### [at] NOSPAMentredeacom> wrote in message
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> A while back, I attempted to model marbles, but failed miserably.  Then
> after seeing Chris Purdy's post, and with the new features of 3.5, I
decided
> to give it another try.
>
> Here's what I have so far.  I think we use to call them "cat eyes".
>
> I still have lots of work to do such as:
>
> -add noise on the surface of the glass since not many marbles are perfect
> -allow multi-coloured swirls
> -allow swirls to be detached (I think this is called spaghetti)
> -maybe add the other easier types: no swirl (rubies?), solid colours
> (biuts?)
>
> I really don't remember what they were all called.  Not to mention, I'm
sure
> different countries have different names for them too.
>
> Surfing the web has taught me that there are hundreds of different styles
> now-a-days.  Many more than I remembered.
>
> Enjoy,
> Richard.
>
>
>
>

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