Did you get the idea from a star trek next generation episode? they had
robots for the same purpose.

Chris Spencer wrote:

> 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-

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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)

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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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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-

Again, no.  Strictly coincidental.

-Chris-

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> If you didn't then you at least made them obvious  :-)
> This sort of black and white image with only the blue standing out makes
for a
> different look.
> Is there anything behind the blue orbs?  If not maybe it could help to
have
> something pupil- or iris-like there.  Not eyes I guess, just something
there.
>
> Bob
>
> "Chris Spencer" <chr### [at] bluelectrodecom> wrote in message
> news:38ef99b3@news.povray.org...
>   I still don't think I captured that gleam in the "eyes"...

Well,  I had to have some distinguishing mark "labeled" the front of the
bot.  I was going for an H.E. Day'ish glowing media effect in the eyes, but
it turned out looking more like a jellybean/marble.  Still, not bad for my
first try at hand-coded media.  Hmmm...something pupil-like, interesting.

-Chris-

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> 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)

MS Outlook Express, with Rich HTML...did that cause a problem in the post?
It looks ok from this end...

-Chris-

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> 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?

-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)
> 
> MS Outlook Express, with Rich HTML...did that cause a problem in the post?
> It looks ok from this end...

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
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Thanks,

Ken Tyler

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

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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)
> >
> > MS Outlook Express, with Rich HTML...did that cause a problem in the
post?
> > It looks ok from this end...
>
> 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
>     messages in HTML format. Many of our visitors do not have HTML
>     compliant news readers. Also, HTML messages consume more server
>     resources than do plain text messages. We do not expire messages
>     in every group on this server and HTML posts are a luxury we
>     cannot support.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Tyler

Gotcha

-Chris-

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