Hi Povman,

have a look to my "starship of the week" (actually: month): it also uses 
randomly arranged boxes, but puts them in coordination with the current 
underground.

I add this time a part of my starship, there you can see my usage of 
randomly positioned boxes. The exterior is blue-gray, the interior is nearly 
black. While I decided to use box-alike shapes for the exterior, I use 
cylinders and spheres for the interior of the large flight deck.

Transgalactic Spacegreetings,

Sven





"POVMAN" <s### [at] acom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4461d36e$1@news.povray.org...
>> Hmmm... The intention is good. But it requires still a lot of more work. 
>> I
>> assume that you use randomly positioned boxes, and just in simple gray
>> color.
>
> Your not wrong about the work.  It is a single, randomly selected texture
> applied to the whole thing
>
>
>> I think, your station or ship should consist of surface structures and
>> interior structures.
>
> interior structures?
>
>>And give a certain esthetic to your design.
>
> I am considering that "themeing" the random stream would add to the 
> effect.
> I think thats what your getting at.
>
>> Moreover, if you want to continue using these blocks, equip them with
>> surface details (not only textures, but individual additional shapes).
>
> The plain "box" is the default if no other shape is selected to placed at
> that location,  I am constantly adding new differn't shapes to the 
> selection
> list.
>
>> Don't have all the boxes being rotated around their own axes (but have
>> them still randomly positioned), but give them a common direction. Let's
>> say, have their front sides pointing all together to one common 
>> direction.
>
> I think I'll add that as a random option.
>
>> Use textures. Use lighted windows. Do not use very colorful green or red
>> or yellow "mini suns" on their surface, that destroys the serious 
>> approach
>> your station or ship otherwise could have.
>
> The macro already makes a random choice, it either uses all white lights 
> or
> all random colours.  I'm reluctant to remove the coloured option as it can
> add some good "feel" to some of the images.
>
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