I don't have any reference to compare your image to, but it looks nice to
me. BTW, when you decide to redo your numerals "IIII" shoud be "IV" ;)


"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:3de3d874@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
>      I've been playing with 'Blue Steel' watch hands recently, and
> trying to get the right texture/colour from memory as I've seen many
> old pocket watches with these types of hands and thought it would be a
> challenge for me.
>
>    (Please disregard the numerals as I think they're *not good*).   ;)
>
>    The image was modelled in sPatch, and rendered in PoV.
>
>    What do you think I could do to improve the hands? I'm not quite
> sure if I have the code right or not for this, but maybe someone could
> give some pointers? Or is it ok?
>
>    Any advice most welcome...
>
>     texture {
>        pigment {colour Black }
>
>    pigment { Blue filter .345 }
>      finish {
>         ambient 0
>         diffuse .05
>         reflection .5
>         specular .6
>         roughness .001
>         metallic  4.5
>         brilliance 10   <----- (tried Alfs' figure here, (pov3.1) with
> this image, (pov3.5)...)
>         irid {
>           .3
>           thickness .01
>           turbulence .02
>         }
>       }
>     }
>   }
>
>    ~Steve~
>

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> I don't have any reference to compare your image to, but it looks nice to
> me.

>BTW, when you decide to redo your numerals "IIII" shoud be "IV" ;)

Hehe not on clocks, obviously you have no reference :-)
I don't know why, but clocks are an exception, may be to avoid reading
mistakes due to numerals rotation ?
Marc

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Sir Charles W. Shults III wrote:
>     I posted a little scene file that produces a fair blued steel look in
> povray.text.scene-files for you.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> 
> 
> 

Are you sure? Just looks like blue sky to me.

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I never noticed that. I haven't seen any clocks with roman numerals in a
while, the exception being a clock my grandmother gave my family which keeps
the numerals level to the ground, and because of that uses a "IV" instead of
a "IIII."

Although I don't see how you could confuse a IV with a VI, even on such a
watch. IV is the only number that comes between III and V! ;-)

"Marc Jacquier" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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>

> 3de43c98$1@news.povray.org...
> > I don't have any reference to compare your image to, but it looks nice
to
> > me.
>
> >BTW, when you decide to redo your numerals "IIII" shoud be "IV" ;)
>
> Hehe not on clocks, obviously you have no reference :-)
> I don't know why, but clocks are an exception, may be to avoid reading
> mistakes due to numerals rotation ?
> Marc
>
>

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"Marc Jacquier" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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>

> 3de43c98$1@news.povray.org...
> > I don't have any reference to compare your image to, but it looks
nice to
> > me.
>
> >BTW, when you decide to redo your numerals "IIII" shoud be "IV" ;)
>
> Hehe not on clocks,

   And not pocket watches either.

   ~Steve~



> Marc
>
>

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> Sir Charles W. Shults III wrote:
> >     I posted a little scene file that produces a fair blued steel
look in
> > povray.text.scene-files for you.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Chip Shults
> > My robotics, space and CGI web page -
http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> >
> >
> >
>
> Are you sure? Just looks like blue sky to me.

     I think it's all down to the light angle.

     ~Steve~

>

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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>     I posted a little scene file that produces a fair blued steel
look in
> povray.text.scene-files for you.

     Thanks for that! That works well (you can tell it's metallic now
by the reflection in the winebottle) and is much easier than the code
I had.

     ~Steve~

>
> Cheers!
>
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
>
>
>

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> Not sure about the blue steel.  I have no image to compare it to.
THe
> crystal looks very nice.

   It's a bad winebottle then?  ;)

The device at the top for winding the watch
> looks the least believable to me.

   Heh, I have to admit that I did chicken out of trying to model that
at first and used radial instead, but this morning I summoned up the
courage and gave it a shot - it took some time to figure it out but I
think I got there in the end.

   What do you think of it now?

     ~Steve~

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>    What do you think I could do to improve the hands? I'm not quite
> sure if I have the code right or not for this, but maybe someone
could
> give some pointers? Or is it ok?

There is a cactus isosurface in the demo files that may be useful for
the button?

I've rarely seen a IV on watches instead of IIII but this could be a
european thing.

The hands will vary from flat to slightly cylindrical, and a bit
lighter than the example below to very dark blue. I just tried
digi-fotoing a selection of hands but they came out black or white -
I'm no photographer :(

It seems you need at least a little light, or a bright object, near
the hands to see any sort of specular reflection, which may be masked
by the crystal reflections anyway. The example below of a spring used
this:

texture{
   pigment{ rgb <0, 0.5, 1> }
   finish {
       brilliance 4
       diffuse 0.1
       metallic
       specular 0.8
       roughness 0.06
       conserve_energy
       reflection <0, 0.05, 0.1>
   }
}

This is in 3.5 with radiosity, but is much darker without rad, and
also in 3.1

Alf

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St. wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:3DE### [at] aolcom...
> 
>>Not sure about the blue steel.  I have no image to compare it to.
> 
> THe
> 
>>crystal looks very nice.
> 
> 
>    It's a bad winebottle then?  ;)
> 
> The device at the top for winding the watch
> 
>>looks the least believable to me.
> 
> 
>    Heh, I have to admit that I did chicken out of trying to model that
> at first and used radial instead, but this morning I summoned up the
> courage and gave it a shot - it took some time to figure it out but I
> think I got there in the end.
> 
>    What do you think of it now?
> 
>      ~Steve~
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

That makes a huge difference overall

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