"Marc-Hendrik Bremer" <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
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   :)


> Marc-Hendrik
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"Andrew Coppin" <orp### [at] btinternetcom> wrote in message
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> Sorry sorry sorry...

   No need to apologise, **** happens...  ;)


>
> Well, at least someone likes the image...

      ANY feedback is good, but yes, I like it. I may have a go at my own 'Plasma
Machine' soon.

      ~Steve~

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> Andrew.
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> > Sorry sorry sorry...
>
>    No need to apologise, **** happens...  ;)

Just making it clear that I realise my error, and I'm not doing this stuff
just to **** people off ;-)

> > Well, at least someone likes the image...
>
>       ANY feedback is good, but yes, I like it. I may have a go at my own
'Plasma
> Machine' soon.

Cool luck.
Andrew.

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Mmm... Interesting...

(Of course - *real* plasma is supposed to be ionised gas at heigh
temparature and low pressume, isn't it?... Or that watery bit in people's
blood, depending on which kind of plasma you mean ;-)

Me I just like an excuse to make interesting images. Oh, and I got one of
those plasma ball thingies at home. (Never did work out why the streamers
are blue, but the terminals are pink...)

Andrew.

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In article <3db7dc3f@news.povray.org>,
 "Andrew Coppin" <orp### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:

> (Of course - *real* plasma is supposed to be ionised gas at heigh
> temparature and low pressume, isn't it?... Or that watery bit in people's
> blood, depending on which kind of plasma you mean ;-)

Pressure doesn't really matter. The ionized gas a lightning bolt passes 
through is at quite a high pressure for a short period of time. And the 
sun is just a big ball of plasma with portions at an extremely high 
pressure.


> Me I just like an excuse to make interesting images. Oh, and I got one of
> those plasma ball thingies at home. (Never did work out why the streamers
> are blue, but the terminals are pink...)

Different temperatures and voltage potentials. The ball contains a 
mixture of gasses, some only ionize and glow at the central electrode.

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> > Me I just like an excuse to make interesting images. Oh, and I got one
of
> > those plasma ball thingies at home. (Never did work out why the
streamers
> > are blue, but the terminals are pink...)
>
> Different temperatures and voltage potentials. The ball contains a
> mixture of gasses, some only ionize and glow at the central electrode.

I always wondered about that... And about how you can touch the thing
without frying yourself to a crisp ;-)

(Actually, I find that if I balance a metal object on top of the glass, I
can get little sparks to fly off it onto anything that's earthed... Burned
my finger doing that!)

Andrew.
[has too much free time]

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:05:35 +0200, Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote:
> 
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3db6eeb3@news.povray.org...
>>      Andrew, please see your image in attached .jpg format. The filesize for this
>> image is ok for this group, 600+ isn't. Why is it that you can't produce your
>> images in the .jpg format? Many people, (including myself), still have dial-up and
>> it takes some time to download, so consequently, some won't even try to download
>> it.
>>
> 
> Also try testing different programs and compression settings. The attached JPEG
> uses progressive encoding, is more than 25KB smaller than Steves but shows a
> better quality with less artefacts.
> And BTW most programs are also able to get a higher compression ratio for
> PNG images as POV does, and almost every program can produce smaller
> PNG files than Photoshop.
...

and with pngcrush you can recompress png files to get the smallest
possible file size
http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pmt/

-brute (Use brute-force, try 114 different methods [11-124])
but usually brute-force is not needed ;)

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:27:01 +0200,
Marc-Hendrik Bremer <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> 
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3db71dd9@news.povray.org...
> 
>>        Oh, so you downloaded the same file-name 3 times then? Silly.
>>
> 
> Oh, and how should I know that it's the same file and not something
> earth-shattering new? As your subject-line does not implement that it's the
> same file, I thought you might have some "Plasma machine" yourself to show.
> 
> Besides, OE does not allow me to download just your text and not the
> attachment. That might be OE fault, but that's another story. So I had the

no, NNTP protocol just does not have such a feature.
either you download the whole article or drop the connection to the
server and reconnect AND don't download the big article the next time.

> choice to ignore your post (I don't think that would have been good), or to
> take it the way it is.
> 
> Why don't you post URL's to those "teaching examples"? Silly.
> 
> Marc-Hendrik

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In article <slr### [at] safarihomelinuxnet>,
 Safari <y7p### [at] sneakemailcom> wrote:

> no, NNTP protocol just does not have such a feature.
> either you download the whole article or drop the connection to the
> server and reconnect AND don't download the big article the next time.

Actually, it must be OE. All the other newsreaders I've seen display the 
text and then the image as it downloads. I thought OE did this too, but 
I haven't really used it much.

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