Half of this afternoon and evening

Gail
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Is that a mortar & pestle on the left? I ask because on one hand, that's exactly
what it looks like (although most I've seen are just plain white) and on the
other, we don't tend to have those as kitchen staples here in the USA.

I happen to have a . . um . . "stick" part (mortar or pestle?) and find it
useful for grinding herbs a little finer, and occasionally making some of my
pets' medicines more palatable. Just haven't noticed anyone else with one.

Nice piece of work.

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Ah, Gail! (sigh) If only your wood were a little more turbulated, and your phong
highlighting a tad smaller, I might propose
marriage. But, then you would decline, and break my heart, and I would never render
again!

Very nice image! I like the mood. :)

Grim

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"GrimDude" <vos### [at] gulfnet> wrote in message
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> Ah, Gail! (sigh) If only your wood were a little more turbulated, and your
phong highlighting a tad smaller, I might propose
> marriage. But, then you would decline, and break my heart, and I would
never render again!

<grin>

> Very nice image! I like the mood. :)

thanks

Gail

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"Batronyx" <bat### [at] alliancecablenet> wrote in message
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> Is that a mortar & pestle on the left? I ask because on one hand, that's
exactly
> what it looks like (although most I've seen are just plain white) and on
the
> other, we don't tend to have those as kitchen staples here in the USA.

Yes. The one I've got is made of a dark green granite and is VERY heavy. I
dropped
it once onto a tiled floor. The tile it fell onto cracked

> I happen to have a . . um . . "stick" part (mortar or pestle?) and find it
> useful for grinding herbs a little finer, and occasionally making some of
my
> pets' medicines more palatable. Just haven't noticed anyone else with one.

The bowl is the mortar, the stick is the pestle.

I use it for grinding spices, making curry pastes, crushing garlic etc. It's
one of the most
useful items in my kitchen

> Nice piece of work.
>

thanks

Gail
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I watch a lot of food TV and Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef) He uses the
mortar and pestle frequently but I've never seen him use measuring spoons.

My mortar and pestle doesn't have the clear color separation that yours
has, but it looks like a good heavy model.

Josh English
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Hmm, yours is in reality granite and yet you chose to use a marble pattern
instead?  Or does the granite look more like this did?  I like the look of
it no matter.

I've used a mortar and pestle (measuring spoons too) only in chemistry or
firework-making before, not for food-making.  Although, I guess I have seen
them in kitchens before.  Actually if you added a crucible, flask and butane
burner this could also be a chemists table  :-)

Comment on metal texture:  seems the measuring spoons don't have reflection,
or at least the right kind of reflection.  It could even be that were the
pigment raised and diffuse lowered that those might be more metallic (sure
hope they aren't plastic or I'm talking for nothing here).  Does seem to
have 'brilliance' used anyhow.

Speaking of reflection, that mortar and pestle look so highly polished I'd
expect to see the spoons showing a little bit in its texture.

bob h

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"bob h" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
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> Hmm, yours is in reality granite and yet you chose to use a marble pattern
> instead?  Or does the granite look more like this did?  I like the look of
> it no matter.

Mine looks fairly close, stone is a slightly darker green. I've seen
grey marble, wood, grey granite, black stone pestle and mortars in various
stores

> Comment on metal texture:  seems the measuring spoons don't have
reflection,
> or at least the right kind of reflection.  It could even be that were the
> pigment raised and diffuse lowered that those might be more metallic (sure
> hope they aren't plastic or I'm talking for nothing here).  Does seem to
> have 'brilliance' used anyhow.

<sigh> gotta work on my textures. The spoons are white plastic
texture {
 pigment {White}
 finish {specular 0.5 roughness 0.02}
}

Gail
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"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
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>
> "bob h" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
> news:3c39c56e$1@news.povray.org...
>
> > Comment on metal texture:  seems the measuring spoons don't have
> reflection,
>
> <sigh> gotta work on my textures. The spoons are white plastic
> texture {
>  pigment {White}
>  finish {specular 0.5 roughness 0.02}
> }

Oops, my mistake then, sorry Gail!  :-)  Guess that when someone doesn't use
reflection on something white with highlights I should try and think plastic
instead of metal.

Getting white things looking right is one of those difficult things to do.
I almost always use a color value greater than 1, often 1.2 to 1.4, while
keeping diffuse below the default of 0.6 along with using a higher ambient
than the default 0.1, around 0.2 to 0.3.  A low brilliance, such as 0.2,
really helps too I think.
Radiosity is of course good at enhancing the whiteness most times too.  If
you were to use that then dropping color back to 1.0 and removing brilliance
is probably wise.
As usual YMMV.

bob h

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Uh-oh!

I'VE GOT HAPPY FEET!

(goes off dancing)...

Grim

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