POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : UberPOV logo : Re: UberPOV logo Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: UberPOV logo  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 25 Nov 2013 04:19:29
Message: <52931621$1@news.povray.org>
>clipka  on date 21/11/2013 20.09 wrote:
> In case someone is wondering what the UberPOV icon is supposed to
> represent, here's a large version of it. It was originally designed to
> replace the splash screen, but obviously there's nothing to replace
> there anymore.
>

> some decorative fonts, particularly in logos, the umlaut-dots of the

> other inside the U. Thus, the image could be a rendition of the first
> character of the program's name.
>
> The logo is also an homage to POV-Ray, as the crescent and "sun" are
> taken directly from the POV-Ray logo. The cone is replaced with another
> sphere though.
>
> The crescent and "planet" use highly translucent SSLT; the "corona" of
> the "sun" is some surprisingly simple emissive media, based on a bozo
> pigment with black hole warp, combined with a radius function into a
> function pigment.
The logo it's nice, but it resembles a little the Eye of Sauron on the 

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Eye_of_Sauron
;-)
Paolo


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