stephen parkinson wrote:
> St. wrote:
> 
>> This is just a texture adventure, comments welcome.
>>
>>    ~Steve~
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
> 
> why are the springs wrapped on a diameter equal to the
> 'across flats distance' not the diameter of the hexagon points ?
> 
> stephen

actually thinking about it, the coils on mine are composed of about 2 or 
3 turns parallel sided, then it goes conical from about 5 turns

how many lights, 3 ?
maybe dim the high intensity one, and move it to reduce the glare off 
the tile ?

stephen

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St. wrote:
> This is just a texture adventure, comments welcome.
> 
>    ~Steve~
> 
> 

Seeing the title, it hit me for the first time:  Allen Keys, homonym for 
Alan Keyes, the black conservative Catholic who ran for the Republican 
presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000.  Hmmmm.

Anyway, very nice image.

Dave Matthews

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"stephen parkinson" <ste### [at] zmemw16demoncouk> wrote in message
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> actually thinking about it, the coils on mine are composed of about
2 or
> 3 turns parallel sided, then it goes conical from about 5 turns

    Is it just the parallel coils that are holding the keys? I haven't
got any here at the moment, so these were from memory.


>
> how many lights, 3 ?

   One area light and one point light set at rgb <.8, .8, .8>. I was
trying to see if the point light might 'grey' the keys a little more.


> maybe dim the high intensity one, and move it to reduce the glare
off
> the tile ?

  Yes, I wasn't sure if I should keep that or not, but then, I'm sure
I've seen an example of this in RL. I'll re-render, and move it around
a little.

     ~Steve~


> stephen

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"Felbrigg" <som### [at] microsoftcom> wrote in message
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> 1. Nice!

   Thank you.

> 2. The wire on the keys should be smoother and duller, it currently
looks
> "hammered", and wire generally doe not have that look

   Heh, yeah, I think it's because I'm forever polishing metal. I'll
reduce the bumps.

   ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
> "stephen parkinson" <ste### [at] zmemw16demoncouk> wrote in message
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> 
> 
>>actually thinking about it, the coils on mine are composed of about
> 
> 2 or
> 
>>3 turns parallel sided, then it goes conical from about 5 turns
> 
> 
>     Is it just the parallel coils that are holding the keys? I haven't
> got any here at the moment, so these were from memory.
> 

yes

> 
>>how many lights, 3 ?
> 
> 
>    One area light and one point light set at rgb <.8, .8, .8>. I was
> trying to see if the point light might 'grey' the keys a little more.
> 
> 
definely an over-intense glare

<snip>

stephen

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:40881151@news.povray.org...

Nice wrenches. The tiles seem a bit thin. I'll bat digging up some of
JVP's lighting code and rerendering this would complete the project.

 -Shay

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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:40:03 -0500, Dan P <dan### [at] yahoocom>
wrote:

>St. wrote:
>
>> This is just a texture adventure, comments welcome.
>> 
>>    ~Steve~
>
>Heh, when I first read the subject, I was thinking, "Alien keys?"

me too.  ;)

The floor pigment is really interesting.
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"povray" <pov### [at] bestwebnetalmost> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:40:03 -0500, Dan P
<dan### [at] yahoocom>
> wrote:
>
> >St. wrote:
> >
> >> This is just a texture adventure, comments welcome.
> >>
> >>    ~Steve~
> >
> >Heh, when I first read the subject, I was thinking, "Alien keys?"
>
> me too.  ;)
>
> The floor pigment is really interesting.

     Thanks. Have a go with Wings. Make a simple tile and see if you
can add a stone or wood texture to it so that it looks like stone or
wood. If you can, please let me know how.  ;)

  ~Steve~

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:20:27 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>
>"povray" <pov### [at] bestwebnetalmost> wrote in message
>news:408aa0c5.306657@localhost...
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:40:03 -0500, Dan P
><dan### [at] yahoocom>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >St. wrote:
>> >
>> >> This is just a texture adventure, comments welcome.
>> >>
>> >>    ~Steve~
>> >
>> >Heh, when I first read the subject, I was thinking, "Alien keys?"
>>
>> me too.  ;)
>>
>> The floor pigment is really interesting.
>
>     Thanks. Have a go with Wings. Make a simple tile and see if you
>can add a stone or wood texture to it so that it looks like stone or
>wood. If you can, please let me know how.  ;)
>
>  ~Steve~
>

No no no.  The pattern you have *now* is nice!  I would like to
know how the pattern was done.  I would guess you started with
a crackle but aside from that I can't figure it out.





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"povray" <pov### [at] bestwebnetalmost> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:20:27 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> >> The floor pigment is really interesting.
> >
> >     Thanks. Have a go with Wings. Make a simple tile and see if
you
> >can add a stone or wood texture to it so that it looks like stone
or
> >wood. If you can, please let me know how.  ;)
> >
> >  ~Steve~
> >
>
> No no no.  The pattern you have *now* is nice!  I would like to
> know how the pattern was done.  I would guess you started with
> a crackle but aside from that I can't figure it out.

  "You take the left tile and it's a Wings tile. You take the right
tile and it's a Pov tile."

     Heh...  Ok, as much as I like Wings for modeling, it's not good
at showing textures with any striation or grain effect in it - a wood
grain, a stone texture, etc.

   The texture and finish for both of these simple tiles is:

        texture{
         T_Stone19
        finish { reflection .03}}

    And that's it. There's no scaling, rotation, nothing else to make
this happen. The reason that the tiles in my original image have a
pattern to it is because I left the 'edge' lines on the tile, (see
second image).

   I had the same trouble when I modeled my lock-knife with Wings. If
you didn't see that thread, here it is:


http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C400ad93c%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=190152&toff=350


     ~Steve~

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