In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.

I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.

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"Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> schreef in bericht 
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> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
>
> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.
>

This is very nice. Could become the planetary symbol of Eris.
I am curious: How would you make the icons reflect in the sphere? What comes 
to mind to me is HDRI...

Thomas

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45109940@news.povray.org...
> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
>
> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.

Nice to get icons reflected maybe you could try a desktop screenshot with a
green background that you get transparent in a image editor and map it on a
plane behind the camera

Marc
...

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Wasn't it Marc who wrote:
>

>45109940@news.povray.org...
>> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
>> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
>> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
>>
>> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
>> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.
>
>Nice to get icons reflected maybe you could try a desktop screenshot with a
>green background that you get transparent in a image editor and map it on a
>plane behind the camera

I'd never thought of reflecting the icons.

I did one use that method to have faint reflections of my face in the
shiny objects on the desktop image. So that when I looked at the
desktop, I could see myself reflected from those objects.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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"Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote in message 
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> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris <snip>

All hail Eris -><- Chaos -><- Discordia

Written this day Boomtime 43rd day of Bureaucracy in the year 3172. (Google 
Discordianism)

His Infallibility Doctor John, Keeper of Acronyms and other small furry 
creatures

-- 
"Please refrain from fondling the nymphs and sprites
- it makes them giggly and skittish.
Thank you for your co-operation.
The Management"

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Mike Williams wrote:
> Wasn't it Marc who wrote:

>> 45109940@news.povray.org...
>>> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
>>> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
>>> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
>>>
>>> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
>>> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.
>> Nice to get icons reflected maybe you could try a desktop screenshot with a
>> green background that you get transparent in a image editor and map it on a
>> plane behind the camera
> 
> I'd never thought of reflecting the icons.
> 
> I did one use that method to have faint reflections of my face in the
> shiny objects on the desktop image. So that when I looked at the
> desktop, I could see myself reflected from those objects.
> 

Took a screencap of the desktop with just bright pink as the background,
since some icons have blues and greens that seemed like a good color to
use. GIMP's color to alpha tool, then saved it as a png. Right now that
is mapped onto a cube just in front of the camera with no_image and
no_shadow. It still reflects as solid black though, I havn't messed
around with figuring out why.

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Doctor John wrote:
> All hail Eris -><- Chaos -><- Discordia
> 
> Written this day Boomtime 43rd day of Bureaucracy in the year 3172. (Google 
> Discordianism)
> 
> His Infallibility Doctor John, Keeper of Acronyms and other small furry 
> creatures
> 

So are you saying I should have it reflect an apple with kallisti
written on it?

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Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> > Wasn't it Marc who wrote:

> >> 45109940@news.povray.org...
> >>> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
> >>> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
> >>> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
> >>>
> >>> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
> >>> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.
> >> Nice to get icons reflected maybe you could try a desktop screenshot with a
> >> green background that you get transparent in a image editor and map it on a
> >> plane behind the camera
> >
> > I'd never thought of reflecting the icons.
> >
> > I did one use that method to have faint reflections of my face in the
> > shiny objects on the desktop image. So that when I looked at the
> > desktop, I could see myself reflected from those objects.
> >
>
> Took a screencap of the desktop with just bright pink as the background,
> since some icons have blues and greens that seemed like a good color to
> use. GIMP's color to alpha tool, then saved it as a png. Right now that
> is mapped onto a cube just in front of the camera with no_image and
> no_shadow. It still reflects as solid black though, I havn't messed
> around with figuring out why.

Have you tried giving it a finish with ambient 1 and diffuse 0?


-tgq

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"Sabrina Kilian" <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote in message 
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> Doctor John wrote:
>> All hail Eris -><- Chaos -><- Discordia
<snip>
>
> So are you saying I should have it reflect an apple with kallisti
> written on it?

Now, there's an idea :-))

Doctor John etc etc

-- 
"Please refrain from fondling the nymphs and sprites - it makes them giggly
and skittish.
Thank you for your co-operation.
The Management"

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