I really like the colours, and the idea is interesting... abstract and good...


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You have your cooling towers mixed up, Andrew is refering to the huge
(ten stories seems about right) towers used to store cooling water at
nuclear power plants. Ken, you are refering to the cooling towers used
on large buildings which serve a completely different type of cooling.

Ken wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cocker wrote:
> >
> > Here you go. After much searching, I found these pics of the concrete cooling
towers at
> > the mighty DRAX power station, not too far from where I live. Water is drawn from
the
> > river Ouse, which is only a short walk from here. These are what Steve was
refering to,
> > and what I also regard as being 'proper' cooling towers.
> >
> > all the best,
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------
> > Andy
> 
> Image accepted. I am familiar with these but they few and very
> far between here on the west coast of America. I am still having
> a hard time equating the appearence of these with the originaly
> posted image but am willing to let it drop if all of you are.
> 
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Hmm, maybe I need to move the camera so you can see how dissimilar this
is...

Nah!

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Thanks, everyone, for the kind comments.

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I really like it, very moody. How may I ask did make the reflection of
all the hexagonal holes in the floor in the spheres? As far as I can see
the floor does not have these holes. I like the look those holes give
the scene though.

GrimDude wrote:

> I know what it is, I'm not sure why it is, but... Here It Is! :)
>
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Andy

Only one thing I can say in reply to this,  AWWSSOME!


Cheers
Steve
Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Here you go. After much searching, I found these pics of the concrete cooling towers
at
> the mighty DRAX power station, not too far from where I live. Water is drawn from
the
> river Ouse, which is only a short walk from here. These are what Steve was refering
to,
> and what I also regard as being 'proper' cooling towers.
> 
> all the best,
> 
> --
> ----------------------
> Andy
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> Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote in message news:3720FD15.F16617D6@ndirect.co.uk...
> > Now that is ugly, I'd rather have our concrete ones any day,
> > they've got so much character, and on a good day you can smell
> > the steam.
> >
> > I checked a few web sites, but couldn't find any cooling towers
> > that I liked, one site had coolers like Ken's image on it and I
> > thought they were fore cooling drinking water in offices.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve
> >
> > Ken wrote:
> > >
> > > Bob Hughes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Same things here. Ken may not have realized what you meant exactly or
> > > > they actually have rectangular ones in southern California. I've seen
> > > > ones in Washington state and Alabama here where I live, U.S. of course.
> > > > Maybe Ken is in Russia? Don't think I've seen any pictures of the
> > > > tapered  tube kind there. j/k
> > > > Anyway, I know what you mean by the angular bracing beneath them.
> > >
> > >   Ken is an engineer with almost 22 years of industrial experience.
> > > Ken knows what a cooling tower is and what it should look like. The
> > > small image below is typical of the types I have worked with and is
> > > considered modern and effecient in design. Perhaps because California
> > > is a lot newer than the states in the east and is obviouly younger
> > > than the U.K. it is typical to see newer equipment that does not suffer
> > > from antiquated designs like those that are still likely to be used
> > > in areas sufferening from a lack of economic expansion. Perhaps not.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Tyler
> > >
> > > mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
> > >
> > >   -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >  [Image]
> >
> 
>  [Image]
> 
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GrimDude wrote:
> 
> I know what it is, I'm not sure why it is, but... Here It Is! :)

And like art, I know it when I see it.  A *very* fine image, from the
lighting to the texturing to the framing choices.  Well done!

Any post processing done or what gave it that "grainy" feel?
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Thomas Lake wrote in message <37216F24.B58F6476@home.com>...
>I really like it, very moody. How may I ask did make the reflection of
>all the hexagonal holes in the floor in the spheres? As far as I can see
>the floor does not have these holes. I like the look those holes give
>the scene though.
>
If you insist! The holes are there, though. I used a height_field (heh)
textured with a checker pattern.

Right after I catch up on posts I'll put it in text.scenes-files for you.

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Dearmad wrote in message <37220CB5.A13FC8DF@noplace.nowhere>...
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>Any post processing done or what gave it that "grainy" feel?
>--


Boo, hiss... Post what? :)

I added a subtle effect in using a *very* dark sky_sphere, but somehow I
doubt that did it. I've posted the source over in text.scene-files. Check it
out. :)

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If you were able to see the base of the tower in the second picture
Andrew C. posted there would be the angular braces I was referring to
anyhow. I was wondering if these were outdated by now from what you were
saying :) Maybe they should be if they aren't, must be a design that
goes back to the 60's. That "other" cooling thing-a-ma-jig is hard to
make head or tails of.


Ken wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cocker wrote:
> >
> > Here you go. After much searching, I found these pics of the concrete cooling
towers at
> > the mighty DRAX power station, not too far from where I live. Water is drawn from
the
> > river Ouse, which is only a short walk from here. These are what Steve was
refering to,
> > and what I also regard as being 'proper' cooling towers.
> >
> > all the best,
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------
> > Andy
> 
> Image accepted. I am familiar with these but they few and very
> far between here on the west coast of America. I am still having
> a hard time equating the appearence of these with the originaly
> posted image but am willing to let it drop if all of you are.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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