Here's the final, and as I promised Tek, at 1600x1200.  Added the birds and
hot air balloon per some suggestions from my earlier post and other minor
changes. The only major change is the grass, which no longer uses Gilles'
makegrass, and instead uses my very own grass macro. Woohoo! My first
homerolled mesh!
Thanks Gilles, for the inspiration, and thanks to Gena for his tileroof
macro, since Gilles' code went right over my head... Gena's macro was just
what I needed to figure out the rotation functions & macros.

RG

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Nice idea and it looks good too. What would it look like with focal 
blur, not too much but some?

Ari-Matti

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Wow that looks awesome, and I have a new backdrop :) thanks!

It has a nice feeling of being a windy day, and the colours look fantastic.
Excellent work!

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"gonzo" <rgo### [at] lansetcom> wrote in message news:3f64140c@news.povray.org...
> Here's the final, and as I promised Tek, at 1600x1200.  Added the birds and
> hot air balloon per some suggestions from my earlier post and other minor
> changes. The only major change is the grass, which no longer uses Gilles'
> makegrass, and instead uses my very own grass macro. Woohoo! My first
> homerolled mesh!
> Thanks Gilles, for the inspiration, and thanks to Gena for his tileroof
> macro, since Gilles' code went right over my head... Gena's macro was just
> what I needed to figure out the rotation functions & macros.
>
> RG
>
>
>

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"gonzo" <rgo### [at] lansetcom> wrote in message
news:3f64140c@news.povray.org...

   I enjoyed your first one, and this now completes it for me. It
works just fine. May I offer some critiques though? I think your golf
ball could have done with some soft rounded edges, and possibly with a
very 'little' focal blur. The Tee I think, should be a basic colour
with minimal texture? More plastic?

     But that's it. Beautiful image really, and great perspective imo.

    ~Steve~



> RG
>
>
>

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Hey Gonzo!

"gonzo" <rgo### [at] lansetcom> wrote in news:3f64140c@news.povray.org:

> Here's the final, and as I promised Tek, at 1600x1200.  Added the birds

I liked the idea and the look of your first post a lot, and I was looking 
forward to see the final results. Congratulation it is just great, nice 
work. At 1600X1200, it fits well on my desktop.

Be the club and always keep your eyes on the ball! You obviously understood 
that!!!

Ciao!

Mart


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I like it! FORE!

Rohan _e_ii

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// I fully agree with Steve (esp. with "beautiful" and "great";
//  here is my suggestion for a rounded dent on a half sphere.
//
//   Sputnik


intersection {
  blob {
    sphere { 0, 10, 1 }
    sphere { 15*y, 5.4, -5 }
    threshold 0.001
    //sturm
    }
  plane { -z, 0 }
  pigment { color rgb 1 }
  finish { ambient .4 diffuse .6 }
  }

light_source { <-3, 1, -2>*1000, rgb 1 }

camera { location <0, 1, -2>*2 look_at 0 translate 10*y }

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news:3f6a3d98@news.povray.org...
> // I fully agree with Steve (esp. with "beautiful" and "great";

Thanks!

> //  here is my suggestion for a rounded dent on a half sphere.
> //
> //   Sputnik
>
>
> intersection {
>   blob {
>     sphere { 0, 10, 1 }
>     sphere { 15*y, 5.4, -5 }
>     threshold 0.001
>     }

Hey, thanks!  I hadn't even thought of a blob with negative strength dents!
The one I used is just a union of squashed spheres differenced from a larger
sphere.  The blob probably isn't even any slower!  Bedtime right now but
I'll play with that tomorrow.

And thanks everyone for all the comments.  I'll have to play with the focal
blur also. I'd like to get just a slight blur on the grass & ball, but keep
the background sharp, particularly the flag & balloon.

This one is still a final for the original purpose though, since it was a
birthday present and the birthday is past, so maybe a sequel...

RG - what am I thinking... this is the age of updates...

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... and that's my new wallpaper!



"gonzo" <rgo### [at] lansetcom> wrote in message news:3f64140c@news.povray.org...
> Here's the final, and as I promised Tek, at 1600x1200.  Added the birds
and
> hot air balloon per some suggestions from my earlier post and other minor
> changes. The only major change is the grass, which no longer uses Gilles'
> makegrass, and instead uses my very own grass macro. Woohoo! My first
> homerolled mesh!
> Thanks Gilles, for the inspiration, and thanks to Gena for his tileroof
> macro, since Gilles' code went right over my head... Gena's macro was just
> what I needed to figure out the rotation functions & macros.
>
> RG
>
>
>

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