On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:05:00 -0400, Janet wrote:

> I got a good laugh from this. Its great!

Thanks! I laughed too. You know how it is when you try to express what's
in your imagination in SDL and sometimes the results aren't what you
expected. That happened several times while making this creature, except
that it was more gross than I had expected! I kept thinking to myself,
laughing, "The artists on the POV server are going to SHOOT me for this
abomination!"


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Artemia Salina <y2k### [at] sheayrightcom> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:47:42 +0300, Eero Ahonen wrote:
>
>
> > Cute.
> >
> > Few years of evolution more and it's up to the level of my fridge's gyus.
>
> Speaking of evolving, I'm going to give it a body, legs and claws next.
> Right after I make the mouth less round and more "natural" looking.
>
> ... Maybe it should have dragonfly or bat wings, too...
>
>
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I think it would be more creepy with no apparent mode of transportation.
Just give it a bloblike body, perhaps with some tentacles and roots.  More
like it just sits and waits for whatever it can get to stumble into it.
"Hold on, don't touch that"

-tgq

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I was trying to reply yesterday but the server doesn't always let me on...

Anyway what I wanted to say is that words don't do it justice....  It's
truely nausiating and creepy, and I mean that in the most complimentary
way!   (Most adjectives for it don't sound nearly as complimentary as you
know I mean :-)  )

Charles

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"Artemia Salina" <y2k### [at] sheayrightcom> wrote in message 
news:pan### [at] sheayrightcom...
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:47:42 +0300, Eero Ahonen wrote:
>
>
>> Cute.
>>
>> Few years of evolution more and it's up to the level of my fridge's gyus.
>
> Speaking of evolving, I'm going to give it a body, legs and claws next.
> Right after I make the mouth less round and more "natural" looking.
>
So you've got a case of gruesome gherkins. Full of 'eyes' with a single 
roto-razr nsyncherator.
OK, I need to know do those eyes !pop! open to produce slicey-edged mouths? 
Scary.

DLM

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"Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote:
> "cogitas3d" <cic### [at] yahoocombr> wrote in message
> news:web.44ba9ed8f26f824cd7dc04a0@news.povray.org...
> > Artemia Salina <non### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> > > But on the other hand it's interesting what you sometimes find in there.
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I liker your... direful image... had beed a lot of work.
> >
> > I think that you can to improve the shiness of shader. Make it more
> glossed,
> > brilliant.
> >
> > A big hug.
> >
> >
>
> Or some fleshy subsurface scattering.

Depending on how you make the thing, you could add a slime layer

-tgq

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"Artemia Salina" <y2k### [at] sheayrightcom> schreef in bericht 
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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:47:42 +0300, Eero Ahonen wrote:
>
>
>> Cute.
>>
>> Few years of evolution more and it's up to the level of my fridge's gyus.
>
> Speaking of evolving, I'm going to give it a body, legs and claws next.
> Right after I make the mouth less round and more "natural" looking.
>
> ... Maybe it should have dragonfly or bat wings, too...
>
>

...and you let that...thing... loose in your home?????
incredible!
But then, I suppose it is used to you, and you to it......

Thomas

by the way: dragonfly wings, yesss!!

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:53:17 -0400, Trevor G Quayle wrote:

 
> Depending on how you make the thing, you could add a slime layer

Oh man, that is great! How did you do that? I'm guessing that it's a
second, larger semi-translucent blob over the four white spheres?

The creature (except for the eyeballs) is made of blobs with many
small spherical components. I suppose I could re-work the code so
as to make two copies of the creature's body, one slightly larger than the
other, and use the larger one as the slime layer. That method would also
allow me to experiment with having the slime drip off of the creature by
adding components to the slime layer.

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Hehe, really cute thing!
Looks like something you would meet at the end of a level in a sci-fi video
game. (Or is that just me..? 0_o ) Photon cannons loaded! Save whatever is
worth saving in that fridge, cuz that thing has got to be put down!

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Artemia Salina <y2k### [at] sheayrightcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:53:17 -0400, Trevor G Quayle wrote:
>
>
> > Depending on how you make the thing, you could add a slime layer
>
> Oh man, that is great! How did you do that? I'm guessing that it's a
> second, larger semi-translucent blob over the four white spheres?
>
> The creature (except for the eyeballs) is made of blobs with many
> small spherical components. I suppose I could re-work the code so
> as to make two copies of the creature's body, one slightly larger than the
> other, and use the larger one as the slime layer. That method would also
> allow me to experiment with having the slime drip off of the creature by
> adding components to the slime layer.
>

Yes it's blobs over spheres.  The trick is to get the blobs so they are only
slightly larger than the underlying sphere over the main surface, but
thicker over the crevices. Code follows:

//START

global_settings {
  assumed_gamma 1.0
  ambient_light 1
  adc_bailout 0.001
  max_trace_level 10
}


camera {
  location  <1,2,-3>
  look_at   0
}


#declare LB=
sphere{0 50 hollow no_image
  texture{pigment{rgb 1} finish{ambient 20}}
}

light_source{0 rgb 1
  looks_like{LB}
  fade_power 2  fade_distance 300
  translate <-100,100,-100>
}

union{
  sphere{<-0.75,0,0> 1}
  sphere{< 0.75,0,0> 1}
  sphere{< 0,0,-0.5> 1}
  sphere{< 0,0,0.5> 1}

  material{
    texture{
      pigment{rgb 0.85}//rgb <0.038, 0.033, 0.202>
      finish{ambient 0
        conserve_energy
        diffuse 0.4// brilliance 0.52
        reflection{0 1 fresnel on metallic 0}
      }
    }
    interior{ior 1.33}
  }
}


blob{
  threshold 0.12 //blob only ~0.01 units bigger than spheres
  sphere { <-0.75,0,0>, 1.25, 1}
  sphere { < 0.75,0,0>, 1.25, 1}
  sphere { < 0,0,-0.5>, 1.25, 1}
  sphere { < 0,0, 0.5>, 1.25, 1}

  hollow
  material{
    texture{
      pigment{rgbf 1}  //texture clear, using interior only
      finish{ambient 0
        conserve_energy
        diffuse 0.0
        reflection{0 1 fresnel on metallic 0}
      }
      normal{bumps 0.2 scale 1/20}
    }
    interior{
      caustics 0.1
      ior 1.56
      fade_distance 0.0075
      fade_power 1001
      fade_colour rgb <0.80784, 0.90588, 0.61176> //slime colour

    }

  }
}


plane{y, -1
  material{
    texture{
      pigment{rgb 0.8}
      finish{ambient 0
        conserve_energy
        diffuse 0.6
      }
    }
  }
}

//END

-tgq

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Artemia Salina <y2k### [at] sheayrightcom> wrote:
> ...except that it was more gross than I had expected!
That's great, you got lucky with the grossness factor. :)

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