I think you are all daft, gone completely mad i tell you,, (guess i'd do weird
things w/ a scanner if i had lots of time to kill.. not like that's what pov is
for or anything...)

Simon de Vet wrote:

> Peter Popov wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:35:59 -0500, "TonyB"
> > <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
> >
> > >I've found textures of tomatoes cut in half. I can't imagine what buffoon
> > >would put that on a scanner. Flour can be vaccumed.
> >
> > When I was in high school I scanned a girl's face (on her request).
> > Made her close her pretty eyes and covered her and the scanner with my
> > black jacket. Would have turned out pretty well if she hadn't jiggled
> > throughout the whole operation.
>
> Bah! I've scanned my face plenty of times, eyes open... it's not that bad.
>
> Actually, if you convert the scan to greyscale and use it as a heightfield,
> the image looks quite good.
>
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No wait it looks like someone spilled allot of dust i mean flower... Table
looks good, sort of looks like it is old and has warped its original
finish... The ball looks like something that has been sitting in a wood
shop... you definitely mastered the illusion of time :)

Fabien Mosen wrote:

> This is my attempt at dust with pov.
>
> The dust on the desk is a height-field.  The image
> for the HF was created by pouring some flour on my
> scanner's glass, to get credible distribution of
> dusty areas (note for later : remove flour from scanner).
>
> The dust on the sphere is generated by using the
> MegaPov "trace" function, and placing discs at intersection
> points.
>
> Not very satisfied of the result.  Tried to use a
> colormapped texture on the sphere's dust, but it looked
> ugly.
>
> Maybe I will try to put other objects and trace some flour..
> .err.. dust on these.
>
> Fabien.
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I just laughed and laughed... :)

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Hello Fabian. Perhaps making the discs into very small spheres, and shooting a
heck of a lot more rays (resulting in more spheres) you could get the effect
you are after.

Fabien Mosen wrote:

> This is my attempt at dust with pov.
>
> The dust on the desk is a height-field.  The image
> for the HF was created by pouring some flour on my
> scanner's glass, to get credible distribution of
> dusty areas (note for later : remove flour from scanner).
>
> The dust on the sphere is generated by using the
> MegaPov "trace" function, and placing discs at intersection
> points.
>
> Not very satisfied of the result.  Tried to use a
> colormapped texture on the sphere's dust, but it looked
> ugly.
>
> Maybe I will try to put other objects and trace some flour..
> .err.. dust on these.
>
> Fabien.
>
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>  [Image]

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The mud-mask facial that went awry ought to be the title of this.

Bob

"Simon de Vet" <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message
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>
>
> Peter Popov wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:35:59 -0500, "TonyB"
> > <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
> >
> > >I've found textures of tomatoes cut in half. I can't imagine what
buffoon
> > >would put that on a scanner. Flour can be vaccumed.
> >
> > When I was in high school I scanned a girl's face (on her request).
> > Made her close her pretty eyes and covered her and the scanner with my
> > black jacket. Would have turned out pretty well if she hadn't jiggled
> > throughout the whole operation.
>
> Bah! I've scanned my face plenty of times, eyes open... it's not that bad.
>
> Actually, if you convert the scan to greyscale and use it as a
heightfield,
> the image looks quite good.
>


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This image is too wierd for words.

Mark

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LOL! Is this how you would look with The Mask on?

sig

Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:35:59 -0500, "TonyB"
> > <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
> >
> > >I've found textures of tomatoes cut in half. I can't imagine what buffoon
> > >would put that on a scanner. Flour can be vaccumed.
> >
> > When I was in high school I scanned a girl's face (on her request).
> > Made her close her pretty eyes and covered her and the scanner with my
> > black jacket. Would have turned out pretty well if she hadn't jiggled
> > throughout the whole operation.
> 
> Bah! I've scanned my face plenty of times, eyes open... it's not that bad.
> 
> Actually, if you convert the scan to greyscale and use it as a heightfield,
> the image looks quite good.
> 
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>  [Image]

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Two words: less coffee

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You've been ray-tracing too long when...

FD

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Get some psychological help man! ;-)

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