> It looks great!

Thanks!

> And I love the smooth path of the lamp! Very movie-like...

I first tried breaking up the motion up into several #if blocks and control
the individual motions with math functions like cos(), sin() and pow(). But
that looked way too stiff, so I ended up just using two splines, one for
rotation and one for position.

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"Tony[B]" wrote:
> So the pot emits glows? Odd, but interesting.

Oh yeah, lots of magic things do. Farries (probably originating from Peter
Pan), magic wands, and, well, this magic lamp does too!

> Felt kinda like watching a spacecraft. :)

Hmm, I feel sorry for the people in that spacecraft! ;)

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"Mark James Lewin" wrote:
> I like it!

Glad you do. :)

> I always thought magic dust sparkled more. I recall
> an anim you did some time ago that had good sparkling
> particles

This one using textured discs?
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/20340/

Or these using MegaPov glows?
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/15165/
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/15170/


I really miss the ability to use glows. Media just don't produce nearly as
nice effects. :(
The thing about glows is that even small glows affect the image a little bit
in a very large radius (infinite radius actually), and that way multiple
small glows become a bigger glow. Doing that with media would be extremely
slow, so instead I just use small media glows that don't interact very well
and don't have the same glowing look. Glows wouldn't have worked well here,
though, as they become invisible on backgrounds that are not dark.

I'll see how this animation looks with textured discs - maybe better than
how it currently looks.

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Rune wrote:
> ...
> Oh yeah, lots of magic things do. Farries (probably originating from Peter
> Pan), magic wands, and, well, this magic lamp does too!
> ...

That's pixies. Faeries (or fairies if you like) don't glow. Or sparkle.
Or have ickle wings. Or... etc

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Ooops, I forgot to mention how wonderful you are, and how we all want to
be you when we grow up and/or have your children.

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*loool*
this lamp movie is really lovely.

How did you define the path for it? It moves really well and smoothly.
Hopping and swirling around and GOOOOoooooo...... *g*

regards
SY

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"Grey Knight" wrote:
> Rune wrote:
> > ...
> > Oh yeah, lots of magic things do. Farries (probably
> > originating from Peter Pan), magic wands, and, well,
> > this magic lamp does too!
> > ...
>
> That's pixies. Faeries (or fairies if you like) don't
> glow. Or sparkle. Or have ickle wings. Or... etc

I was never aware of the distinction and didn't know the word "pixie" as no
corresponding word exist in my language AFAIK. Could you describe the
difference between fairies and pixies? And what does "ickle" mean?

Followup-to povray.off-topic

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> *loool*
> this lamp movie is really lovely.

Glad you like it! :)

> How did you define the path for it? It moves really
> well and smoothly.
> Hopping and swirling around and GOOOOoooooo...... *g*

One spline for rotation and one for location. I've posted the source code of
the animation (not including the particles) to povray.binaries.scene-files
in case you're interested.

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Very cool. If you need BETA testers, I will happily volunteer.
=Bob=

"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in message news:3c749af2@news.povray.org...
: "=Bob=" wrote:
: > That's really beautiful!
:
: Thanks!
:
: > Will you be releasing this product for general use?
:
: Yes, I expect my particle system to be ready for release within half a year,
: give or take several months...
: Rune

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Rune wrote:

> "Mark James Lewin" wrote:
>
> > I always thought magic dust sparkled more. I recall
> > an anim you did some time ago that had good sparkling
> > particles
>
> This one using textured discs?
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/20340/
>

Yes, this is the one. The particles have a more "magical" feel when they look
like this.

MJL

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