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OK, so I'm new to this news server. I've been using POV-Ray since
about version 2, and in that time I've created some fairly cool
images.

But then I loggon on here, and OH DEAR! My stupid little creations
majorly SUCK compared to the amazing stuff on here... Was all this
*really* done with just POV-Ray?!? OK, I'm rubbish...

For what it's worth, one of my best ever images is attached. It's a
"signiture" image - i.e., I use it to sign emails and so forth, hence
the tiny size. (If anyone cares, I can post a much bigger version.)
It consists of a background sphere, 500 spherical "bubbles" (with IOR
< 1 to give [hopefully] the impression of air-filled bubbles in
water), and obviously the text objects. The bubbles are lit from
below by a red light source. (The text is in a seperate light group.)
The background sphere actually has a black & white "bozo" pattern
with ambient=1; I wasn't really expecting the beautiful shapes of
pink - presumably because I forget to put diffuse=0 like I usually
do. A happy accident!

By the way, ~ 1 hour 5 mins with POV-Ray 3.5 under WinXP on a laptop,
1.4GHz AMD CPU, 256MB RAM. (It actually takes about 4 mins if you
turn off antialiasing; I got it set with method #2, depth = 4,
threshold = 0.1! Well, it is a very small image with lots of very
high-frequency details... At larger image sizes you don't need it set
quite so high.) Not sure if I'm allowed to post it in PNG format, but
it IS pretty tiny...

But it doesn't really compare to almost any of the very cool images
round here. >Feeling very infirior here!< Maybe I should just go back
to drawing little ellipses with MS Paint...

Andrew.

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