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  Re: Blued Steel?  
From: Niytaan
Date: 26 Nov 2002 22:31:36
Message: <3de43c98$1@news.povray.org>
I don't have any reference to compare your image to, but it looks nice to
me. BTW, when you decide to redo your numerals "IIII" shoud be "IV" ;)


"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:3de3d874@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
>      I've been playing with 'Blue Steel' watch hands recently, and
> trying to get the right texture/colour from memory as I've seen many
> old pocket watches with these types of hands and thought it would be a
> challenge for me.
>
>    (Please disregard the numerals as I think they're *not good*).   ;)
>
>    The image was modelled in sPatch, and rendered in PoV.
>
>    What do you think I could do to improve the hands? I'm not quite
> sure if I have the code right or not for this, but maybe someone could
> give some pointers? Or is it ok?
>
>    Any advice most welcome...
>
>     texture {
>        pigment {colour Black }
>
>    pigment { Blue filter .345 }
>      finish {
>         ambient 0
>         diffuse .05
>         reflection .5
>         specular .6
>         roughness .001
>         metallic  4.5
>         brilliance 10   <----- (tried Alfs' figure here, (pov3.1) with
> this image, (pov3.5)...)
>         irid {
>           .3
>           thickness .01
>           turbulence .02
>         }
>       }
>     }
>   }
>
>    ~Steve~
>


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