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From: Tek
Subject: abstract wallpaper
Date: 15 Apr 2004 02:56:38
Message: <407e3226@news.povray.org>
I got bored with my backdrop so I did something that looks kinda cool.

You like? :)

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Daniel Patrick Johnson
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 15 Apr 2004 03:07:58
Message: <407e34ce@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:
> I got bored with my backdrop so I did something that looks kinda cool.
> 
> You like? :)
> 
> 
I do like it.  How did you make the dimple?


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From: Martin Belair
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 15 Apr 2004 18:54:00
Message: <Xns94CCBFF34E372badhabit07hotmaildot@203.29.75.35>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in news:407e3226@news.povray.org:

> I got bored with my backdrop so I did something that looks kinda cool.
> 
> You like? :)


Yes a lot. Is it possible to get a 1600X1200 version for my desktop?

Pretty pretty please with sugar on top.....


Ciao!

Mart


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From: Dan P
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 15 Apr 2004 19:45:37
Message: <407f1ea1$1@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:

> I got bored with my backdrop so I did something that looks kinda cool.
> 
> You like? :)

Now THAT'S what I call ART!
It has a LOT of impact, and the contrast is magnificent!
Did you to Sub-Surface Scattering with this one?
This is an image to "take notes" on lighting from! The lighting is 
POYFECT  :-)


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 16 Apr 2004 03:28:42
Message: <407f8b2a@news.povray.org>
"Martin Belair" <bad### [at] hotmailDOTcom> wrote in message
news:Xns94CCBFF34E372badhabit07hotmaildot@203.29.75.35...
> "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in news:407e3226@news.povray.org:
>
> > You like? :)
>
>
> Yes a lot. Is it possible to get a 1600X1200 version for my desktop?

How can I possibly refuse? :)
Here's a bigger one.

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Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 16 Apr 2004 03:29:56
Message: <407f8b74@news.povray.org>
"Daniel Patrick Johnson" <zap### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I do like it.  How did you make the dimple?

It's CSG using a squashed torus, thus:

union {
 #declare d = 1; //depth of curve
 #declare r = 2; //width of curve
 difference {
  plane { -z, d }
  cylinder { -z*d*2, 0, 1+r }
  sphere { 0, 1 }
 }
 torus { 1+r, r rotate x*90 scale <1,1,d/r> }
}


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Tek
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From: Tek
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 16 Apr 2004 03:37:45
Message: <407f8d49$1@news.povray.org>
"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Now THAT'S what I call ART!

Really? I call it killing time when bored! :)

> Did you to Sub-Surface Scattering with this one?

Nope, that's a solid object. It uses a variation on the metallic paint texture I
came up with ages ago (this one:
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com/gallery/index.php?gallery=misc&image=metal_hdr_car
 ), combined with a radial pigment that makes it look iridescent (even though it
isn't!).

> This is an image to "take notes" on lighting from! The lighting is
> POYFECT  :-)

The lighting is a bunch of random stuff that looked okay after a bit of
tweaking. It really isn't at all clever. Radiosity with low brightness ('cause I
was too lazy to balance out the other elements of the scene!), a big glowing box
behind the camera, and a nearby area light.

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Martin Belair
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 16 Apr 2004 20:09:56
Message: <Xns94CDCCD1765C0badhabit07hotmaildot@203.29.75.35>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in news:407f8b2a@news.povray.org:

> How can I possibly refuse? :)
> Here's a bigger one.


My mother always told me that it never hurts being polite. Well, once again, 
she was right!

Thanks a lot Tek, it's my new desktop now!

Ciao!

Mart


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From: Dan P
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 17 Apr 2004 20:51:23
Message: <4081d10b@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:

> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

<snip />

>>This is an image to "take notes" on lighting from! The lighting is
>>POYFECT  :-)
> 
> The lighting is a bunch of random stuff that looked okay after a bit of
> tweaking. It really isn't at all clever. Radiosity with low brightness ('cause I
> was too lazy to balance out the other elements of the scene!), a big glowing box
> behind the camera, and a nearby area light.

Such modesty :-)

There is no such thing as randomness. We, as humans, conceive of that 
which is too complex for us to objectify as "chaos". You're brilliance 
might be complex and subconscious, but it is there!

(Another fine message from Psychobabbles 'r Us!(TM))

--
Dan P
http://<broken link>


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: abstract wallpaper
Date: 17 Apr 2004 21:04:15
Message: <4081d40f$1@news.povray.org>
"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:4081d10b@news.povray.org...
> There is no such thing as randomness. We, as humans, conceive of that
> which is too complex for us to objectify as "chaos". You're brilliance
> might be complex and subconscious, but it is there!

Well actually it's neither complex or subconcious. I can explain exactly how it
came about: The light position is <-1,3,-2>, which puts it in a quadrant behind
and to the left (which is where I needed it) and uses the figures 1, 2, and 3
which I always use when I first position things in a scene ('cause it's easy and
not obviously axis aligned)!

In fact, the best thing about the lighting is that the light source is very
close to the objects, because I forgot to multiply the light position by 1000!!!
So the thing that looks best was a typo! :)

The big white box was created in a similar way but without a typo, I shalln't
bore you with the details.

> (Another fine message from Psychobabbles 'r Us!(TM))

I know what you mean, but on this occasion I used the word random in an
innapropriate sense, I tend to use "random" to mean "unplanned", or I suppose
even "darwinian", which is actually nothing like the true meaning of random.
It's like I have my own particular type of slang! :)

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com


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