POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Brushed Metal : Re: Brushed Metal Server Time
11 Aug 2024 07:17:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Brushed Metal  
From: Xilo Musimene
Date: 19 Apr 2004 01:48:48
Message: <40836840$1@news.povray.org>
> It looks quite nice.

Thanks!

> Perhaps have a look at this brushed metal too:
> http://runevision.com/show.asp?page=povgoodies&data=brushed
> 
> This texture actually doesn't have any small bumps at all, but it looks
> very much like brushed metal, even from long distances. Well, this
> technique actually doesn't do anything to the sides of the cylinders,
> only the caps (the ends of the cylinders), but then, I think it's the
> cylinder caps that best show off brushed metal... ;)
> 
> It can be combined with your own texture too...

I remember seeing these here on the newsgroups too...  It is very neat! 
   I guess this effect could also be used to make the kind of rainbow 
refraction seen on CD-ROMs.

However, I will not need cylinder caps in my scene, only the sides of 
them...

Thanks!
   Simon


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