I think most people start a kind of spiral shape like from Dark City until they have a
rough circle of ink on the page.

"mr.art" wrote:

> I understand "Hello World" for programers, but do office
> product junkies write  Hello world to test new pens?
>
> David Fontaine wrote:
> >
> > Josh English wrote:
> >
> > > I don't knwo anyone who didn't start out with spheres on checkered planes.
> > > It's a must. It's the "Hello World" of POV-Ray. And yours is very well done.
> > > Play with some normals, you'll love it.
> > >
> > > Welcome to the group. Stick around.
> >
> > I started POV with sphere on a plane, but I was programming for years before I
> > wrote a "Hello World" (trying to learn assembly for the TI-89) I haven't
> > programmed anything in a while, though, so I forgot a lot of my C. Never learned
> > C++, and assembly is completely different on the 86 and 89.
> >
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>
> --
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>
> "Often the appearance of reality is more important
> than the reality of the appearance."
> Bill DeWitt 2000

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"mr.art" wrote:

> I understand "Hello World" for programers, but do office
> product junkies write  Hello world to test new pens?

I like to start off with, "My God! The monkeys are on fire." ;-)

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:39:42 -0800, Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
>I think most people start a kind of spiral shape like from Dark City until they have
a
>rough circle of ink on the page.

This beggs the question, clockwise or anticlockwise? And does it differ
according to wheather you're left handed or not?  

>
>"mr.art" wrote:
>
>> I understand "Hello World" for programers, but do office
>> product junkies write  Hello world to test new pens?
>>
>> David Fontaine wrote:
>> >
>> > Josh English wrote:
>> >
>> > > I don't knwo anyone who didn't start out with spheres on checkered planes.
>> > > It's a must. It's the "Hello World" of POV-Ray. And yours is very well done.
>> > > Play with some normals, you'll love it.
>> > >
>> > > Welcome to the group. Stick around.
>> >
>> > I started POV with sphere on a plane, but I was programming for years before I
>> > wrote a "Hello World" (trying to learn assembly for the TI-89) I haven't
>> > programmed anything in a while, though, so I forgot a lot of my C. Never learned
>> > C++, and assembly is completely different on the 86 and 89.
>> >
>> > --
>> > ___     ______________________________________________________
>> >  | \     |_                 <dav### [at] faricynet> <ICQ 55354965>
>> >  |_/avid |ontaine               http://www.faricy.net/~davidf/
>> >
>> > "Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come" -Beatles
>>
>> --
>> Mr. Art
>>
>> "Often the appearance of reality is more important
>> than the reality of the appearance."
>> Bill DeWitt 2000
>
>--
>Josh English
>eng### [at] spiritonecom
>"May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."
>
>


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Steve wrote:

> This beggs the question, clockwise or anticlockwise? And does it differ
> according to wheather you're left handed or not?

I usually do clockwise from left to right, and yes.

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Dear Folks,


John Hanley wrote:

> I"m John and I'm very new to this whole POV thing.  Here is a little
> thing I did.  Please be merciful with your criticisms.

This is a great start, John.  You've passed your POV Rite of Passage with this
cool interpertation of the classic sphere-and-checkered-floor.  If you want to
hone your skill try this suggestion:
make a simple scene using that red and gold wall texture is some subtler way.
That texture seems to a favorite with new users; I recall using it on walls in
my early scenes.  Even then I could tell that it was too loud and busy for use
on big objects.  Experiment with scaling it down to look good on a 3x4 test
slab;
play with the surface normals; try adding a second, translucent texture.

Welcome to the community.  Write to these groups freey.  Read the news groups
FAQs.

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                                       Brendan

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