Frames from an animation I have been wasting an awful lot of time on 
lately. These include the Forbidden Planet-style death ray.

Now let's see if I can figure out how to attach a picture like the big 
boys do... :-)

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Are those moire patterns, or did you want that look? If so, eww, good
work.

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In article <3900B2EB.B89534D6@faricy.net>, David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:

> Are those moire patterns, or did you want that look? If so, eww, good
> work.

You mean the patterns on the pipes, right? They are heavily accentuated 
in a small rendering (320x240) like this one, and then they get even 
more pronounced when I compress the image. A 6x40x480 has no moir

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In article <3900B2EB.B89534D6@faricy.net>, David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:

> Are those moire patterns, or did you want that look? If so, eww, good
> work.

You mean the patterns on the tubes, right? A 320x240 render accentuates 
that pattern and then compressing it into a jpg makes it even stronger. 
A 640x480 with no compression has no "moire" to speak of, although it 
does have nice ridges.

So, to answer your question, I guess they are, and I don't particularly 
want them, but they aren't there in the animation. However, I like the 
implication that I might be able to produce the effect on command! :-)

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Rick Adams wrote:
> 
> Frames from an animation I have been wasting an awful lot of time on
> lately. 

Ooii!

Nice and slimy creature in the bottom left picture!
Very organic look. 

What kind of creatures are they?

I also like your pipes.

How did you do the clouds in the sky?

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In article <3900C618.8E614204@hotmail.com>, Tor Olav Kristensen 
<tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:


> Nice and slimy creature in the bottom left picture!
> Very organic look. 

Thanks! They are all the same creature, just different lighting.

> What kind of creatures are they?

Just about everything in the picture is a blob. I often do the ground as 
a blob, too...I use a Mac and since there aren't any decent modellers 
for the Mac (at a price I can afford, anyway) I do simple stuff. Blobs 
are about as simple as you can get, I think, and I like the way they 
look.
 
 
> How did you do the clouds in the sky?

// The sky:
plane { y, 1000
  hollow
  texture {
    pigment { MidnightBlue }
    finish { ambient .1 diffuse 0}
   }
   texture {
     pigment {
       bozo
       turbulence .5
       color_map {
         [0 White]
         [1 White filter 1]
       }
     }
     finish { ambient .1 diffuse 0 }
     scale <1000, 250, 250>//<1000, 250, 250>
     rotate <5, 60, 0>
  }
}

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Rick Adams wrote:
> 
> // The sky:
> ...

Thank you!

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In article 
<benboomREMOVE_THIS_PART-7C7D6A.14501521042000@news.povray.org>, Rick 
Adams <ben### [at] xprtnet> wrote:

> Just about everything in the picture is a blob. I often do the ground as 
> a blob, too...I use a Mac and since there aren't any decent modellers 
> for the Mac (at a price I can afford, anyway) I do simple stuff. Blobs 
> are about as simple as you can get, I think, and I like the way they 
> look.

I prefer hand-coding myself, but you might try looking around here, 
there are a bunch of freeware/shareware modellers:
http://mac.povray.org/model_tools.html
The list includes at least two blob modellers: Blob Sculptor and Jam.

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