"Xplo Eristotle" wrote:
> The sphere would look kind of cool with a screaming face on it..

I'm not sure what you mean. As picture of a screaming face mapped onto the
sphere?

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"Cat & Kevin Jackson-Mead" wrote:
> Yeah, make it into some kind of Borg sphere or something.

I've never seen a borg - refence images needed!

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"ddombrow" wrote:
> Cool image, Rune.

Thank you!

> My suggestion would be to animate it, with kind of a transcendtal
> anime style slow motion explosion. With some overly melodramatic
> music in the background if you can swing it.

Hmm, I'm not sure I want to animate it. Sorry!

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sorry, the sphere...

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> "Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> > how did you do this???
>
> Which part exactly?
>
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Rune wrote:
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> "Cat & Kevin Jackson-Mead" wrote:
> > Yeah, make it into some kind of Borg sphere or something.
> 
> I've never seen a borg - refence images needed!

http://www.vfxhq.com/1996/st8-b.html

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"Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> How did you do the sphere???

The sphere is made of 6 faces, like if it was a cube. Each face has 4x4
pieces. Each piece is an intersection of 4 planes and a sphere, and then a
smaller sphere is differenced away from it. All the pieces are mapped with
bump_maps. Some of the pieces are translated a bit away from the center.
That's it, basically.

Greetings,

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Rune wrote:
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> "Xplo Eristotle" wrote:
> > The sphere would look kind of cool with a screaming face on it..
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. As picture of a screaming face mapped onto the
> sphere?

I was thinking more along the lines of displacement mapping.

-Xplo

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Wicked cool.  Maybe change the green glow to a more
"techie" blue or cyan glow, but otherwise, don't change it!
It's perfect!
        Is the background an imagemap?

Pete

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I've made some minor changes to the image and uploaded a 800x600 version to
my website.

The source code is also available from there.

Greetings,

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Thanks a bunch...  !:-)

Rune wrote:
> 
> "Paul Daniel Jones" wrote:
> > How did you do the sphere???
> 
> The sphere is made of 6 faces, like if it was a cube. Each face has 4x4
> pieces. Each piece is an intersection of 4 planes and a sphere, and then a
> smaller sphere is differenced away from it. All the pieces are mapped with
> bump_maps. Some of the pieces are translated a bit away from the center.
> That's it, basically.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Rune
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