> Wow!  That's cool!  Send me the source-code, please!
> For the eyes, try a high phong number 2 or above.
>
> --
> H.E. Day

:::Stands back:::  Seriously?  No offense, but that's like the mountain
swaying to the wind, if you'll forgive my analogy.  Drop me a line if your
really interested; I'd be more than happy.  Anyway, it's somewhat
large...textures, models or both?

By the way, I must thank you for opening my eyes to a "higher" understanding
or textures and modeling.  Your last source post intrigued me to the point
of browsing MegaPov's help file and studying its abilities in earnest.
There's a lot to learn, but I've got all the time in the world...

-Chris-

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There is/was an episode of TNG that had a scientist
trying to generate power from orbit. She required
three semi self aware robots to perform matintance
in the small access tubes. The power project was a
bust but the robots were declared another life form.

"Chris S." wrote:
> 
> Did you get the idea from a star trek next generation episode? they had
> robots for the same purpose.
> >Stands for remotely operated maintenance robot...but that's not important.
> It's a little exercise on modeling and textures.  I still don't think I
> captured that gleam in >the "eyes"...  Comments good or otherwise
> appreciated. -Chris- [clipped image]
> 
> Nope, strictly coincidental.  In fact, I'm somewhat a trekkie and I have no
> idea what your talking about...
> 
> -Chris-

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"Chris S." wrote:

> > All that gray with just a little blue adds an interesting touch.
> > (Hmm, looks like my NS window... hehe)
> >
> > Sorry if I asked this before, but what do you use to post? (it was HTML)
>
> BTW, if I had rendered at a higher resolution, you'd might actually see some
> red ;)  So are you insinuating the need for more color or contrast?

Neither :-)

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> :::Stands back:::  Seriously?

Yup.  I like it.  It does need to be rendered at a higher res, however.

>  Drop me a line if your
> really interested; I'd be more than happy.  Anyway, it's somewhat
> large...textures, models or both?

Hmmm...  Could you e-mail me the model and decreased textures? I assume you used
blobs and csg, so the .pov files won't be very large.

> By the way, I must thank you for opening my eyes to a "higher" understanding
> or textures and modeling.  Your last source post intrigued me to the point
> of browsing MegaPov's help file and studying its abilities in earnest.
> There's a lot to learn, but I've got all the time in the world...

Gee, what do you say to something like this? Umm.  Glad I could help.

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>> By the way, I must thank you for opening my eyes to a "higher"
understanding
>> or textures and modeling.  Your last source post intrigued me to the
point
>> of browsing MegaPov's help file and studying its abilities in earnest.
>> There's a lot to learn, but I've got all the time in the world...
>
>Gee, what do you say to something like this? Umm.  Glad I could help.
>
>--
>H.E. Day
>


He's not the only one :) I saw some of the work you were producing, and
realized "Damn! This program can do some wicked stuff if one knows how!".
While I might not have your native artistic ability, it HAS prompted me to
sit down with 'stack o' documentation' and finally try to learn how to use
this raytracer _properly_ rather than just tinker with it.

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Ken wrote in message <38EFDCEE.C573FAA6@pacbell.net>...
>As part of a server policy we prefer that you post in plain text when
visiting
>this news server. The relevant part of the news server policy is stated
below
>
>1.) This has been mentioned before in other announcements on this
>    news server but we would appreciate it if you do not post your
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>    in every group on this server and HTML posts are a luxury we
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Additionally, with HTML posting it is easier for someone to accidentally
include the image in their reply to the post, resulting in two or three
additional messages each containing a copy of the image.

Mark

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Mark Wagner wrote:

> Additionally, with HTML posting it is easier for someone to accidentally
> include the image in their reply to the post, resulting in two or three
> additional messages each containing a copy of the image.

You mean like in this thread :)

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In article <38EFE0BD.D665F18E@fci.net>, Pov### [at] aolcom wrote:

> For the eyes, try a high phong number 2 or above.

Also try either a high brilliance(3-5 or more) or a negative brilliance.

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Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <38EFE0BD.D665F18E@fci.net>, Pov### [at] aolcom wrote:
> 
> > For the eyes, try a high phong number 2 or above.
> 
> Also try either a high brilliance(3-5 or more) or a negative brilliance.

Now I'm curious.  Negative brilliance?  What does it do?  Suck in
light?  I must try that.

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In article <38F11583.F6DB9E3E@attglobal.net>, fla### [at] attglobalnet 
wrote:

> Now I'm curious.  Negative brilliance?  What does it do?  Suck in
> light?  I must try that.

Sort of...here is an image that demonstrates the effects of brilliance.
Values go like this:
Top row: -50 to 50 in increments of 10
Second from top row: -25 to 25 in increments of 5
Middle row: -5 to 5 in increments of 1
Middle row: -1 to 1 in increments of 0.2
Middle row: -0.5 to 0.5 in increments of 0.1

The center column, which is easily identifiable, has a brilliance of 0.

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