First, my apologies to Rune, I blatantly stole his idea. i actually
thought the idea of a "tech sphere" was a good place to learn some new
techniques :-)

Anyhoo, these images use the bump_map command and a look_like light
source (the glowing red thing on the inside). I do not like the
bump_map, is there a way to shrink the size of the map and tile it? it
appears that it is just wrapping one copy around the sphere. I dod not
use spherical mapping (which I probably should have) or the "once "
command.

Anyway, these are not supposed to be very good, just little digital
doodles.

-paul

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It looks good, and remember, you aren't "stealing" Rune's idea, your are
"inspired by his work and use it as a learning tool for yourself." (This was
one of the first lessons of Art School).

The spherical bump map will only map once across the sphere.You can't scale it
or use multiple copies of it unless you change the source image.

It looks good for a start, keep working with it.

Josh

Paul Daniel Jones wrote:

> First, my apologies to Rune, I blatantly stole his idea. i actually
> thought the idea of a "tech sphere" was a good place to learn some new
> techniques :-)
>
> Anyhoo, these images use the bump_map command and a look_like light
> source (the glowing red thing on the inside). I do not like the
> bump_map, is there a way to shrink the size of the map and tile it? it
> appears that it is just wrapping one copy around the sphere. I dod not
> use spherical mapping (which I probably should have) or the "once "
> command.
>
> Anyway, these are not supposed to be very good, just little digital
> doodles.
>
> -paul
>
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> Paul Daniel Jones
> 120 Chandlee Laboratory
> Penn State University
> 814-865-2090
> pdj### [at] psuedu
>
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"Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> First, my apologies to Rune, I blatantly stole his idea.

Inspired by, not stolen! :-)

> Anyway, these are not supposed to be very good, just little
> digital doodles.

It's very nice!

Actually it better expresses my original idea than my own image did.

My thoughts were like "something techy, smaller than a human, mechanical",
but my image maybe looked more like "a space station, huge, exploding" which
was not really the intention.

Maybe I'll make a "Tech Sphere II" someday.

Greetings,

Rune
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You mean like the "First Sphere" from Phantasm oblIVion?

Rune wrote:

> "Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> > First, my apologies to Rune, I blatantly stole his idea.
>
> Inspired by, not stolen! :-)
>
> > Anyway, these are not supposed to be very good, just little
> > digital doodles.
>
> It's very nice!
>
> Actually it better expresses my original idea than my own image did.
>
> My thoughts were like "something techy, smaller than a human, mechanical",
> but my image maybe looked more like "a space station, huge, exploding" which
> was not really the intention.
>
> Maybe I'll make a "Tech Sphere II" someday.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rune
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Paul Daniel Jones wrote in message <39E31209.8E81CB93@psu.edu>...
>Anyhoo, these images use the bump_map command and a look_like light
>source (the glowing red thing on the inside). I do not like the
>bump_map, is there a way to shrink the size of the map and tile it? it
>appears that it is just wrapping one copy around the sphere. I dod not
>use spherical mapping (which I probably should have) or the "once "
>command.


In MegaPOV 0.6, you should be able to use the 'frequency' keyword to
increase the number of copies of the bump mape that are wrapped around the
sphere.

Mark

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"Psychomek" wrote:
> You mean like the "First Sphere" from Phantasm oblIVion?

Erm, haven't seen that one.
Picture reference needed...

Rune
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