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From: Mike Sobers
Subject: Stargate flyby
Date: 27 Jun 2008 18:50:02
Message: <web.48656df4298e600299683aa0@news.povray.org>
With all the recent gate activity, I dredged up my old WIP and put together a
little animation.

It still isn't really finished as the chevrons need more work to resemble those
on the TV show.

Mike


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 29 Jun 2008 16:58:48
Message: <4867f788$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Sobers nous illumina en ce 2008-06-27 18:47 -->
> With all the recent gate activity, I dredged up my old WIP and put together a
> little animation.
> 
> It still isn't really finished as the chevrons need more work to resemble those
> on the TV show.
> 
> Mike
Nise, if dark. In the show, the ring never turns after the gate have been 
opened, it only turn while dialing.

-- 
Alain
-------------------------------------------------
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 30 Jun 2008 10:11:46
Message: <4868e9a2$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Sobers wrote:
> With all the recent gate activity, I dredged up my old WIP and put together a
> little animation.
> 
> It still isn't really finished as the chevrons need more work to resemble those
> on the TV show.
> 
> Mike

Great detail!  I'd love to see this added to the Object Library :)

...Chambers


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From: alphaQuad
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 30 Jun 2008 14:00:01
Message: <web.48691e494f1eba034ef70380@news.povray.org>
"Mike Sobers" <mcn### [at] msncom> wrote:
> With all the recent gate activity, I dredged up my old WIP and put together a
> little animation.
>
> It still isn't really finished as the chevrons need more work to resemble those
> on the TV show.
>
> Mike

ok show me event horizon methods or I should give up now and kill myself because
I suk, lol.

nice, but I think the darkness gives more room for realism to appear and light
lets us see.

peace,
aQ


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From: Mike Sobers
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 1 Jul 2008 22:25:01
Message: <web.486ae6764f1eba0eedae2cc0@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> Nise, if dark. In the show, the ring never turns after the gate have been
> opened, it only turn while dialing.
>
> --
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Yes, you are right.  I didn't think about it, but animating both the ring
rotation and water at the same time wouldn't be right.  I still need to animate
the chevrons to do a proper sequence (and the gate opening is still a tough one
but I have some ideas that involve scaling a mesh that has an animated uv
texture imagemapped onto it).

Thanks for the tip.

Mike


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From: Mike Sobers
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 1 Jul 2008 22:25:01
Message: <web.486ae6f44f1eba0eedae2cc0@news.povray.org>
Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>
> Great detail!  I'd love to see this added to the Object Library :)
>
> ...Chambers

Thanks!  I'll be glad to add it, but I'd like to clean the code up a bit first.
Or maybe, given my track record for completing things, I should add it as is and
let others offer improvements?

Mike


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From: Mike Sobers
Subject: Re: Stargate flyby
Date: 1 Jul 2008 22:40:00
Message: <web.486ae9da4f1eba0eedae2cc0@news.povray.org>
"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> ok show me event horizon methods or I should give up now

I've posted the code over in binaries.scene-files at
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/message/%3Cweb.48630a294d571f95184271a10%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3Cwe
b.48630a294d571f95184271a10%40news.povray.org%3E

Here's the basic approach:

//-------------Begin Code------------
#declare WaterTex1 =
  texture {
    pigment {
      wood
      turbulence 0.00
      color_map {
        [0.0 color rgb <0.25,0.25,0.5>]
        [0.5 color rgb <0.05,0.05,0.3>]
        [1 color rgb <0.005,0.006,0.007>]
      }
    }
    normal {
      bumps 0.5
      turbulence 0.5
      scale <1/(4*r1),1/(4*r1),1>  // r1 is the ring radius
   }
   finish {
      ambient 1
      diffuse 0.8
      specular 0.8
      roughness 1/10
   }
}

#declare WaterTex2 =
  texture {
    pigment {
      wood
      color_map {
        [0.0 color rgb <0.1,0.1,0.3>]
        [0.2 color rgb <0.05,0.05,0.3>]
        [1 color rgb <0.005,0.006,0.007>]
      }
    }
   normal {
      bumps 0.5
      turbulence 0.5
      scale <1/(4*r1),1/(4*r1),1>
   }
   finish {
      ambient 0.5
      diffuse 0.5
      specular 0.8
      roughness 1/100
   }
}

#declare water = disc {
  <0, 0, 0>  // center position
  z,         // normal vector
  r1       // ring radius, currently 11 POVRay units
  texture{
  wood
   texture_map {
      [0 WaterTex1 ]
      [0.4 WaterTex2 ]
   }
   scale <2.2*r1,2.2*r1,1>
   translate 0.5*My_Clock*z
  }
  no_shadow
}
//-------------End Code------------

There's also a glowing disc and a spotlight on the middle to help with the
effects.  The only purpose of the texture map (which complicates things a bit
in this case) is to boost the ambient finish in the center.  There's probably a
cleaner way to get the effect I want, but that's where I ended up.

> nice, but I think the darkness gives more room for realism to appear and light
> lets us see.
> peace,
> aQ

Yes, I think the darkness is again that gamma difference between some monitors
that I haven't been able to crack yet.  I've posted several images that look
fine on my monitor (lcd) but with frequent complaints that they are too dark.
Maybe it's time to calibrate ...

Mike


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