"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote in message
> news:485feae7$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > "Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote in message
> > news:485eec4c$1@news.povray.org...
> >>> Just to inflict interest, here a poor man's attempt:
> >>> Needs so much work. Like building a model, argh. Crude bumped disk so
> >>> far.
> >>
> >> The inner ring has all the interesting glyphs (39?), I think you could
> >> save those out as heightfield images, it's probably most of the detail
> >> of the stargate. There's some ribs between the glyphs, more
> >> crenellation on a lip, and a tapered inner edge.
> >>
> > I reckon I can do the Glyphs for the Milky Way stargate pretty quickly
> > because there's an SVG by Max Willis on the Wiki, so I can convert them
> > into
> > prism objects using Inkscape and cut them out of the inner disk using CSG.
> >
>
> I've posted the 39 Glyphs as prism objects on povray.binaries.scene-files
> along with this very crude scene file that cuts them out of segments of a
> ring and assembles the segments into a circle. If anyone wants to use them
> to make a stargate I'd be happy to go through and scale and centre them as
> needed.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.


Here's my WIP from a while back.  Maybe you can take it farther than I did.
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.43efa50f2b248055dff42daa0%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=2

I don't recall if I ever posted an animation or not, but I'll see if I can dig
something up and post a scene in scene-files.  I'd love to see more, now that
SG-1 is off the air I'm a bit nostalgic about it.

Mike

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