ingo wrote:

>did you use/try the "r_ConnectSpheres" macro from
>pov.../scenes/advanced/cats/coolcat.inc ? If not, you seem to have the
>same "problem" that I had. The transition from sphere to the difference
>{cylinder/torus} object is not 100% smooth. Is it possible at all with
>pure CSG?
>
>Anyway, I like the objects, they seem to beg for a checkerd plane ;)

No, I did not use macro from /scenes/advanced/cats/coolcat.inc.
It is pure csg, and we can not get 100% smothness with csg like this - we
have at join line continuous surface, continuous normal vector but
discontinuous derivative of normal - so, we receive smooth surface if no
reflection, but unsmooth if there is reflection. I think, with csg we can
not solve this problem.
 And if you really like checkered plane, I can post one (even imagine:
Subject: checkered plane. Attached picture - checkered plane ;) It was
joke...

 Sincerely Yours, Alex Kluchikov.

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George Pantazopoulos wrote:

>looks very much like silver. How did you make it?

 I used something like envionment map - a textured hollow sphere, big enough
to contain all the scene, with no_shadow and no_image attributes set. I
already answered on similar question asked by Tek - see. May be, it would
be better to post sources?

 Sincerely Yours, Alex Kluchikov.

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Could you post the source for that bozo pigment? it looks really good.

-- 
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

"Alex Kluchikov" <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in message
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> Tek wrote:
>
> >What material have you applied to them? it looks sort of like blurred
> >reflections but I assume it's just a blurry HDR image or something.
> >
> >Can you animate it? :)
>
>  I used big hollow shadowless sphere, about 1000's of POV units large, with
> a little colorfull bozo pigment on it - it creates a blurry reflection
> illusion, very applicable to smooth metallic surface.
>  I did not tried to animate this object this is why: I generate some random
> values for every small sphere. Not all of them are suitable, so, I need to
> throw out some. If animated it would create effect of sudden appearing and
> disappearing - so, I decided to put off animation problem untill I have
> some ideas.
>
> Sincerely Yours, Alex Kluchikov.
>

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Tek wrote:
>Could you post the source for that bozo pigment? it looks really good.

OK. Look in p.b.s.-f. in a few minutes.

Sincerely Yours, Alex Kluchikov.

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Very nice, Alex.  I used a similar method to make solder-flow in electronic
devices- a torus subtracted from a cylinder.  Check out the attached image.  And
once again, very nice image.


Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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Attachments:
Download 'Parts3.jpg' (26 KB)

Preview of image 'Parts3.jpg'

Hi!

Alex Kluchikov <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in
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>  CSG objects. Made of big sphere in center, small spheres around and
>  differences (cylinder - torus) to smoothly connect them. Yes, it looks
>  like something similar to splorks 
> (http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/30636/), but no blobs
> were used. (It seems to me, splorks are made of blobs, am I right?) As
> usually, if anybody interested in source, I'll post it in p.b.s-f.


Once again, it's a really nice image! It's obvious that you have a lot of 
fun with POV. Thank you for posting it in p.b.s-f. I'm playing with it 
now...Just like all the other sources that you gave us in the past week... 
Your talented, don't stop!!!

Ciao!

Mart

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On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:26:08 GMT, Alex Kluchikov <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote:
> CSG objects.

Nice. Another interesting CSG can be found in
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/12039/
with cross section how toruses played with each other.

ABX

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I love the metallic texture...

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Thanks. That's a very nice scene.

-- 
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

"Alex Kluchikov" <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in message
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> Tek wrote:
> >Could you post the source for that bozo pigment? it looks really good.
>
> OK. Look in p.b.s.-f. in a few minutes.
>
> Sincerely Yours, Alex Kluchikov.
>
>

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"Alex Kluchikov" <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in message
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I backed up and looked at some of your previous posts. It is nice to see
someone putting some effort into creating something other than endless
retreads of the same old kitsch. I am looking forward to seeing more.

 -Shay

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