"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> One tiny thing, the white spot at the center is a little
> distracting maybe?

Which white spot? Do you mean the white outlined hole in the centre?
I've removed the white outline from the version on my web page, so there's
nothing white in the centre, but there's still a hole there.

Does this version look okay to you?: www.evilsuperbrain.com
Or should I get rid of the hole altogether?

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Tek
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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Which white spot? Do you mean the white outlined hole in the centre?
> I've removed the white outline from the version on my web page, so there's
> nothing white in the centre, but there's still a hole there.
>
> Does this version look okay to you?: www.evilsuperbrain.com
> Or should I get rid of the hole altogether?

Nah, it looks good. Without the white outline it looks much better imho.

jsj

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> > > The first, if you remove that white border artifact.
>
> Artefact?! I went to some trouble to put that *feature* in
> there!

My I ask how you are adding the black or white borders?
Are you doing it in POV-Ray or is that put in with some
post processing?  I've tried to outline objects before and
never found a good way to do it.

Carl

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Tek wrote:

> "Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
> news:404ae75a@news.povray.org...
>> One tiny thing, the white spot at the center is a little
>> distracting maybe?
> 
> Which white spot? Do you mean the white outlined hole in the centre?
> I've removed the white outline from the version on my web page, so there's
> nothing white in the centre, but there's still a hole there.

yes that hole, I thought it looked a bit like my mouse cursor,
maybe I was still half asleep.

> Does this version look okay to you?: www.evilsuperbrain.com
> Or should I get rid of the hole altogether?
> 

The hole looks better with a black border, imho.

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Well the white outline is easy, it's just a slightly thicker version of the
object drawn bigger and further away (I have a macro for building my object that
takes thickness as a parameter).

The black outline is a cunning trick: I use a thicker object (so it completely
encloses the coloured object, and every point on the surface of the thick object
is a fixed distance from the inner object), then I colour it with texture {
pigment { rgbt 1 } } interior_texture { pigment { rgb 0 } }. This gives a good
outline.

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Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com

"Carl Hoff" <hof### [at] wtnet> wrote in message news:404b2e9b@news.povray.org...
> > > > The first, if you remove that white border artifact.
> >
> > Artefact?! I went to some trouble to put that *feature* in
> > there!
>
> My I ask how you are adding the black or white borders?
> Are you doing it in POV-Ray or is that put in with some
> post processing?  I've tried to outline objects before and
> never found a good way to do it.
>
> Carl
>
>

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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> Well the white outline is easy, it's just a slightly thicker version of
the
> object drawn bigger and further away (I have a macro for building my
object that
> takes thickness as a parameter).
>
> The black outline is a cunning trick: I use a thicker object (so it
completely
> encloses the coloured object, and every point on the surface of the thick
object
> is a fixed distance from the inner object), then I colour it with texture
{
> pigment { rgbt 1 } } interior_texture { pigment { rgb 0 } }. This gives a
good
> outline.
>
> -- 
> Tek
> www.evilsuperbrain.com

Looks great! I vote blacken the hole personally, but it's a matter of style.
You'll never get a heard of cats to meow the same way when looking for their
opinion :-)

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Tek wrote:
> 
> I've been overhauling my website lately, and I've decided to review the logo.
> I'm still happy with the choice of pov object, based on this old image of mine:

Logos should be both simple and distinctive.  That makes the next-to-
last image and the third-from last image the best ones.

Regards,
John

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Have you seen the other images I posted in a reply to my original post?

> Logos should be both simple and distinctive.  That makes the next-to-
> last image and the third-from last image the best ones.

I agree, which is why I've been having so much trouble choosing. On the one hand
there's the issue of what looks better, and on the other the question of which
is simpler.

I'd really appreciate your opinion on the new one on the main page of my website
(I've attached that version). Do you think it is getting too far away from the
simple designs?

Thanks
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Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com

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Attachments:
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Preview of image 'locklogo.gif'

I like the current one, but I think it should be brighter. As it is now,
the darker shades of the colors almost can't be distinguished from the
black outlines. Consider the attached version. (There however the
reflections are too strong, which is an effect of the simple gamma
correction I used.)

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Preview of image 'locklogo_brighter.gif'

> Well the white outline is easy, it's just a slightly thicker version
> of the object drawn bigger and further away (I have a macro
> for building my object that takes thickness as a parameter).

Ok... that won't work though if there is something in the scene
to reflect your object.

> The black outline is a cunning trick: I use a thicker object
> (so it completely encloses the coloured object, and every
> point on the surface of the thick object is a fixed distance
> from the inner object), then I colour it with texture
> { pigment { rgbt 1 } } interior_texture { pigment { rgb 0 } }.
> This gives a good
> outline.

Wow!  That is cunning and I think it will work for what I
want to do too.

Thank you so much,
Carl

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