"Marc-Hendrik Bremer" <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
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| Glad you got inspired by my humble attempts!

Yep, it helps, believe me.

| I like your candles. How did you make the flames?

Scaled spherical media method 3 in MegaPov 0.5 using a double media
statement within single interior, that's pretty much it, less the
tweak-tweak-tweak part.

| Where does the shadow on top of the mirror's frame come from? Is it
from the
| Window?

Yes, window pane border.  Which remained in place while I moved the Moon
around instead.  Try that in real life!

| For the dust: Yes, that's a good idea. I threw a little media in my
scene
| and I think it does what I was after, but being of the "fantasy-kind",
I'll
| probably make more dusty scenes :-) I'm just setting up povray to
render my
| scene again in high quality which will probably take about ten hours
(the
| rendering, not the setting up :-)). I'll post the result.

As long as you haven't quit there's always hope. <g>  But you would
really be doing yourself a favor by doing some investigation into
M.P.0.5.  Like Samuel suggested the slope dependant texturing should be
perfect for applying a layer of dust texture over things.  Maybe
Tony[B], among others, has done that.
It can be tricky to understand the workings however.

Bob

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I like the cover of the book. How did you make that ?

Nice moon detail. But where is the man ? :)

But I think the mirror frame could need some work.
(And maybe only one candle showing in the mirror
would be enough/better.)

Tor Olav
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"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
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| I like the cover of the book. How did you make that ?

That's a ridged multi-fractal, and a pretty lame excuse for one at that.
My first try at it.  Actually there are 2 of them there to make it
fancier.  Same, except the top part is scaled to be thin.

| Nice moon detail. But where is the man ? :)

 Ignore the Moon surface.  It's only a 'spotted' pigment pattern there.

| But I think the mirror frame could need some work.
| (And maybe only one candle showing in the mirror
| would be enough/better.)

Yep, I won't argue over that.  In fact, notice how the mirror is
symbolic of a moon itself and the candles align at the wicks in both
reflection and otherwise?  I over-composed, didn't I?  :-)

Bob

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Hmmm.  Beautiful, the colouring of the candle flames is great, 
but seems to get a bit flattened as reflected by the mirror. 

The moon is very good.  I always like seeing your work. 

What's that black thing on the table? 

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The candel on the right seems to be leaning over in thes second
image. And I still don't know what the back thing is. 

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"Steve" <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote in message
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| Hmmm.  Beautiful, the colouring of the candle flames is great,
| but seems to get a bit flattened as reflected by the mirror.
|
| The moon is very good.  I always like seeing your work.
|
| What's that black thing on the table?

I was just about to reply to your other reply  ;-)
That "thing" is just that, a thing of unknown meaning etc.  It was actually the first
thing I did in this scene, using a image and bump map for the spiral (can't really
tell,
I know...) on the top of it.  Unfortunately I keep thinking it's a ladies compact (?)
for makeup application and all because of the mirror there.  Well, it's not.  Nothing
inside :-)
Glad you like it and anything else I might have done.
To answer about the leaning candle from your other posted reply well it's perspective
camera with angle of 50 (around 67 tends to be about like direction 1 old style
syntax).
I often use 30 to 25 or even less to keep circles and lines from distorting.  Reason I
don't sometimes is because people always seem to like the wide angle perspective
camera.
It's another one of those personal preferences that exists bountifully in this medium
of
3D rendering we do.
I had to go back and look again to see about the flat flame.  Seems so like you say.
However it must be the turbulence of the media used, since the mirror is perfectly,
er,
flat.
Now you have me wondering if the angle of the mirror would make things flatter or not
:-)  Doubtful.

Bob

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