While doing a bit of browsing within some stacks of old 3.5" disks I did 
find some POV-Ray source files of mine I had completely forgotten about. 
It seems they where made for POV-Ray 3.0 and I couldn't resist to update 
them and make them work with 3.7 beta.

The POV-Ray Lego bricks itself are just the kind of basic bricks I did 
play with when I was a child (so about 1966, I guess, before Lego did 
start with all those fancy sets) and I guess the youngsters among you 
will not remember this kind of simple wheels and axis parts, but this is 
how they looked like ;)

And as I'm currently working on some camera lens distortion removal 
filters I figured that I could use the same routines to also *add* some 
lens distortion. This is 'just' post-processing and maybe it will find 
its way into IC some day.

-Ive

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one word:  awesome.

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> While doing a bit of browsing within some stacks of old 3.5" disks I did
> find some POV-Ray source files of mine I had completely forgotten about.
> It seems they where made for POV-Ray 3.0 and I couldn't resist to update
> them and make them work with 3.7 beta.

Great render - I remember those old wheels and tyres too, they had a metal 
axle that you pressed into a special 2x4 brick didn't they?  I preferred the 
technic wheels and axles that you actually connect to stuff :-)

PS is that a dog peeing against a tree in the background?!

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Wonderful!  I still have some of that old stuff.  Gray tires.  Even the 
old Lego logo from the early 70s.  I started with Lego when I was 3 and 
I'm almost 45 now.  :-)

Now my kids are Lego freaks.  Thanks for the wonderful render.

On 2010-01-24 20:47, Ive wrote:
> While doing a bit of browsing within some stacks of old 3.5" disks I did
> find some POV-Ray source files of mine I had completely forgotten about.
> It seems they where made for POV-Ray 3.0 and I couldn't resist to update
> them and make them work with 3.7 beta.
>
> The POV-Ray Lego bricks itself are just the kind of basic bricks I did
> play with when I was a child (so about 1966, I guess, before Lego did
> start with all those fancy sets) and I guess the youngsters among you
> will not remember this kind of simple wheels and axis parts, but this is
> how they looked like ;)
>
> And as I'm currently working on some camera lens distortion removal
> filters I figured that I could use the same routines to also *add* some
> lens distortion. This is 'just' post-processing and maybe it will find
> its way into IC some day.
>
> -Ive

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>> While doing a bit of browsing within some stacks of old 3.5" disks I did
>> find some POV-Ray source files of mine I had completely forgotten about.
>> It seems they where made for POV-Ray 3.0 and I couldn't resist to update
>> them and make them work with 3.7 beta.
>
> Great render - I remember those old wheels and tyres too, they had a
> metal axle that you pressed into a special 2x4 brick didn't they? I
> preferred the technic wheels and axles that you actually connect to
> stuff :-)
>
> PS is that a dog peeing against a tree in the background?!
>
>
For the old wheels, you are right. There where also large ones, with a 
2-4-4-2 pins array.
They worked very well.


Alain

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On 25.01.2010 03:21, nemesis wrote:
> one word:  awesome.

Thanks ;)

-Ive

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On 25.01.2010 11:06, scott wrote:
> Great render - I remember those old wheels and tyres too, they had a
> metal axle that you pressed into a special 2x4 brick didn't they?

Exactly. At the time I played with them the wheels where always red and 
the 'axle'-brick always white. The black wheels did come a view years 
later so I'm a bit cheating.

> I preferred the technic wheels and axles that you actually connect to
> stuff :-)

Those had not been invented when I was playing with them ;)


> PS is that a dog peeing against a tree in the background?!

Well, I guess he does ;)
And this is one of the things I always liked about Lego and especially 
about the old ones with the very limited amount of brick shapes. There 
is a quite high level of abstraction involved but still you could build
everything and it is even recognizable.

-Ive

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On 25.01.2010 18:31, Rick Gutleber wrote:
> Wonderful!  I still have some of that old stuff.  Gray tires.  Even the
> old Lego logo from the early 70s. I started with Lego when I was 3 and
> I'm almost 45 now. :-)
>
I started when I was 5 but I'm a bit older than you ;)

> Now my kids are Lego freaks.
Great!

>Thanks for the wonderful render.

You're welcome.

-Ive

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On 26.01.2010 02:18, Alain wrote:
> For the old wheels, you are right. There where also large ones, with a
> 2-4-4-2 pins array.

Yes. I'm currently rendering a scene with those ;)

But as I'm using high quality radiosity settings (and no light sources) 
I guess the render time will be the same as at the time when I had 
originally written the scene and rendered it on something like a 200 MHz 
Pentium machine IIRC.

-Ive

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"Rick Gutleber" <ric### [at] hiscom> schreef in bericht 
news:4b5dd560$1@news.povray.org...
> Wonderful!  I still have some of that old stuff.  Gray tires.  Even the 
> old Lego logo from the early 70s.  I started with Lego when I was 3 and 
> I'm almost 45 now.  :-)
>
> Now my kids are Lego freaks.  Thanks for the wonderful render.
>

You know that I am quite jealous of you, Lego generation kids? :)

[puts on oldies mask]
"In my time, we did not have Lego, *only* Meccano, and we were always crying 
in frustration because Lego had not been invented yet. I remember going to 
the toys shop and asking if they already had received some Lego, always 
getting the answer: Come back in 15 years' time son, you are too early yet.
[takes off oldies mask]

Well, there it is. Good nostalgic work, Ive!

Thomas

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