"Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcatcom> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>  I used to use 3.0 quite a bit, but I hadn't done much POV-Ray for a long 
> time
> until a bit less than two years ago.  I wanted to re-familiarize myself 
> with
> POV-Ray.  At the time my daughter was a few months old and consequently 
> there
> were a profusion of new baby toys around.  I figured they were good models 
> to
> practice and get reacquainted with POV-Ray and SD; simple colors, 
> geometric
> shapes, not too complex.
>  Well, while all this is true, there turned out to be some interesting
> challenges as well.  Few surfaces are flat, there are few regular angles, 
> and
> EVERYTHING has rounded edges.  For example the basic shapes, while 
> seemingly
> simple extrusions, were actually slightly larger in radius on the bottom 
> than
> the top.
>  Anyhow, this is a simple composition I made a while ago.  These are all 
> real
> toys, and are fairly close representations.  While harder than I expected, 
> I
> still think baby toys are fun things to model, and definitely helped me 
> brush
> up.
>
> PS In the interests of full disclosure, the extruded shapes are actually 
> meshes
> made in Wings3D.  However all my attempts to make them in SDL were quite
> instructive.
>

Hi,
Very nice. I think those models are extremely well done.

Regards,
Chris B.

p.s. Any of them would make a very nice addition to the object collection we 
started last year at http://lib.povray.org, if you're interested.

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