"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> Andrew the Orchid wrote:
>> Now using Chris Colefax's most excellent lense flare dealy.
>>
>> These images have a wonderfully sharp, crisp, clear quality [which
>> the JPEG things you're seeing quite fail to convery].
>>
>> So folks... which do you prefer? "Star" (first image) or "Sparkle"
>> (second image)? I did try the others - most of them look rather
>> silly. As you'd expect, really; after all, a tiny fairy light is
>> nowhere near as bright as a "sun"! ;-)
>>
>> I might even get into building a custom version... but I think
>> next I'll probably try to work out how to turn on area lights.
>>
>> Andrew.
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> As long as you are doing this,...it is true is it not that the
> needles on conifers such as this do not stick out evenly around the
> branch? Rather there is a flat part at the bottom because they seek
> the light.

I guess you could fire a ray from each needle towards the sun and only keep 
it if it can see the sun.

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