"Kzerphii Toomk" <Kze### [at] Wanadoofr> wrote in message
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> Nice project.
>
> Don't put hands...
> Here's no time passing... It's very well... ;-)

Interesting idea! I might do that but I did kinda wanna animate the hands
spinning :)

> To create a broken glass, you could use CSG
> with difference beetween a semi-sphere or
> rotational and an heightfield.

DOH! I should have thought of that. I did something similar for chipping
paint on a wall once. THANKS!

> KT (France)

Corey

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"Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
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> (ugh, I don't like making splines)

Is that because you can't figure out where your control points / nodes
should be?

Would a visual tool that created 2D splines for use in lathes, sors, prisms
be helpful? I am in the progress of playing around with such a tool, written
in VB, but am not sure if there would be much interest besides my own sense
of accomplishment.

Cheers!

Lieut_Data

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"Lieut_Data" <lIe### [at] yahOOcom> wrote in message
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> "Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
> news:3cb0bd95@news.povray.org...
> > (ugh, I don't like making splines)
>
> Is that because you can't figure out where your control points / nodes
> should be?

not really. I just the route work. Its the boring part of POV to me.
And there is no preview short of low quality renders so It takes a lil
while to fix mistakes

> Would a visual tool that created 2D splines for use in lathes, sors,
prisms
> be helpful? I am in the progress of playing around with such a tool,
written
> in VB, but am not sure if there would be much interest besides my own
sense
> of accomplishment.

That'd be awesome. I'm use to dealing with bezier curves in PS. If it could
speed up the process of making them!

> Cheers!
>
> Lieut_Data

Corey

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hey you know that picture where there are time peices all over the place 
draped over the tables and chares and stuff
what was it called
but that looks like it could be meshawarped or somehting to give a bendy 
clock draped effect
thats it
thanks for putting up with me


Corey Woodworth wrote:

> I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to
> do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc, but I
> suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like to
> make the whole thing look older though. Some corrosion and maybe even broken
> glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see doing
> it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be hard to
> model though.
> 
> Any critiques or ideas for further development are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Corey
> 
> 
>

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"Flaming Monarch" <fla### [at] gatescom> wrote in message
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> hey you know that picture where there are time peices all over the place
> draped over the tables and chares and stuff
> what was it called
> but that looks like it could be meshawarped or somehting to give a bendy
> clock draped effect
> thats it
> thanks for putting up with me

You must mean Salvidor Dali's Persistance of time. It would be cool to do
that with this pic, but first I have to finish the watch :)

Corey

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"Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going
to
> do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc, but
I
> suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like to
> make the whole thing look older though.
>Some corrosion
try differencing out random objects (slow, but effective).
>and maybe even broken
> glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see doing
> it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be hard
to
> model though.
Would this method work? (the glass is an isosurface i.e. 3.5 or port to
MegaPov, the frame is CSG)
It took about 2.5 minutes to render (without optimized max_gradient) using
photons and radiosity.  It's usually under 1 minute.

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Look Maw' No Hands

Corey Woodworth wrote:

> I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to
> do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc, but I
> suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like to
> make the whole thing look older though. Some corrosion and maybe even broken
> glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see doing
> it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be hard to
> model though.
> 
> Any critiques or ideas for further development are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Corey
> 
> 
>

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> Would this method work? (the glass is an isosurface i.e. 3.5 or port to
> MegaPov, the frame is CSG)
> It took about 2.5 minutes to render (without optimized max_gradient) using
> photons and radiosity.  It's usually under 1 minute.

Thats similar to what I want but I'm having good luck so far with my HF. I
have a lot more control over it than I would with the isosurface (in the
sense that I know my way around photoshop but isosurface math is a bit over
my head :)

I'll post my results soon.

Corey

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I've made quite a number of watches myself.  Take a look at this address:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/patrickd/imagesby.html

I haven't made any with broken glass to speak of.  One pocket watch was made
with a single crack in it though.
Hands are usually pretty easy to me.  I usually construct them out of
primitives (cylinders, triangles, etc.)


"Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going
to
> do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc, but
I
> suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like to
> make the whole thing look older though. Some corrosion and maybe even
broken
> glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see doing
> it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be hard
to
> model though.
>
> Any critiques or ideas for further development are greatly appreciated!
>
> Corey
>
>
>

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Also check out this prior IRTC from 1996.  There are some great timepieces
made and there is source code
for many of them.

http://www.irtc.org/stills/1996-06-30.html



"Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] netinsnet> wrote in message
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> I've made quite a number of watches myself.  Take a look at this address:
>
> http://showcase.netins.net/web/patrickd/imagesby.html
>
> I haven't made any with broken glass to speak of.  One pocket watch was
made
> with a single crack in it though.
> Hands are usually pretty easy to me.  I usually construct them out of
> primitives (cylinders, triangles, etc.)
>
>
> "Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
> news:3cb0bd95@news.povray.org...
> > I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going
> to
> > do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc,
but
> I
> > suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like
to
> > make the whole thing look older though. Some corrosion and maybe even
> broken
> > glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see
doing
> > it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be
hard
> to
> > model though.
> >
> > Any critiques or ideas for further development are greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Corey
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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