Jamie wrote:
> 
> I got bored of looking at the POV-Ray icon on my desktop the other day,
> so I decided to do a different one :)

I now use your icon for my POV-Ray short cut!

Thank you.

I have always wondered why POV-Ray for Windows 
comes such a boring tiled floor icon.

(Does anybody know?)

Tor Olav
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Got a look at it and I must say that it is puzzling the POV-Ray icon doesn't
have the reflective sphere already.  One of those great mysteries of life I
suppose.  Yours looked fine to me except that a sky showing in it might have
been good.

Bob

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In article <38efaa3e@news.povray.org>, 
per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News says...
> Glad you could make it, welcome.
> It would probably have been best to just upload the Bmp instead of Ico, since
> the idea is to see it here.  Although unless you know already other larger Bmp
> files may as well be taboo so Jpg is the preferred choice.  More to know if you
> haven't read the povray.frequently-asked-questions group here yet, will tell
> plenty about things at these newsgroups.
> 
> Bob

Damn, my mail program posted the .jpg but not my rambling. (not 
necessarily a bad thing :)

Anyway, the .jpg version of the icon has been posted, just for you <grin>

One point is that I did post the .bmp, but it was posted as 
Classi_Icon.ico.  To see the original .bmp, rename it to Classic_Icon.bmp 
:)

Hohum, thanks for your comments, anyway.

I think I'm going to log off and go to bed now, as I'm starting to make 
far too many typo's.

To Tor Olav:

You're welcome.

I thought about a sky, but since I use solid black as my desktop 
background, it didn't seem to fit.  And besides, it was just something I 
did on the spur of the moment ;)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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Cool, it's now my wharf icon for POV.
Hmm, the Simply 3D icon is a reflective sphere on a checkered plane too...
now I have two...

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"Jamie" <lup### [at] mudholespodnetukcom> wrote in message
news:MPG### [at] newsstmuccom...
|
| Anyway, the .jpg version of the icon has been posted, just for you <grin>
|
| One point is that I did post the .bmp, but it was posted as
| Classi_Icon.ico.  To see the original .bmp, rename it to Classic_Icon.bmp
|
| I think I'm going to log off and go to bed now, as I'm starting to make
| far too many typo's.
|
| To Tor Olav:
|
| You're welcome.
|
| I thought about a sky, but since I use solid black as my desktop
| background, it didn't seem to fit.  And besides, it was just something I
| did on the spur of the moment ;)

Thanks, I found that if I tell the newsreader (Outlook) to Open instead of Save
I could view it as Bmp because it apparently instinctively knew it was even with
the Ico extension.  Don't recall encountering that before.

Bob

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It's the perfect icon for POV-Ray!
Brendan Ryan

Jamie wrote:

> Good Evening all (or at least it's evening where I am :)
>
> This is my first post to *any* newsgroup, so bear with me if I make any
> major foulups...
>
> I have, however been lurking here for the past 2000 or so messages (IOW I
> downloaded 2000 back messages last weekend, and fried my brain by reading
> them all in one day)
>
> I got bored of looking at the POV-Ray icon on my desktop the other day,
> so I decided to do a different one :)
>
> This is for Win 9x boxes in case you haven't figured it out already :)
>
> For those of you on other OS's, it's just yer bog standard truecolour
> .bmp file, renamed to a .ico extension.
>
> I'll state right now that I used Moray 3.2 (registered) to do the scene
> because I find I can put scenes together a hell of a lot faster in Moray
> than I can by hand coding (translation: I'm one of those strange people
> who can't think in numbers and equations... :)
>
> Anybody who wants the source is welcome to it, but it's not exactly brain
> surgery, consisting of one plane, one sphere, one point light, one camera
> and two textures...
>
> I think that's enough of my rambling.
>
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

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In article <38efaa3e@news.povray.org>, 
per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News says...
> Glad you could make it, welcome.
> It would probably have been best to just upload the Bmp instead of Ico, since
> the idea is to see it here.  Although unless you know already other larger Bmp
> files may as well be taboo so Jpg is the preferred choice.  More to know if you
> haven't read the povray.frequently-asked-questions group here yet, will tell
> plenty about things at these newsgroups.

I did upload the bmp.  It just had the extension changed to .ico :)

If you want to see the original .bmp, change the file name from 
Classic_Icon.ico to Classic_Icon.bmp.

The reason I didn't encode it to .jpg is that I couldn't see the point 
with a 3k image.  If I had rendered it at 800x800 or somesuch, then yes, 
I'd have jpeg'd it.

For those who are interested in such things, it took 6 minutes 29 seconds 
for the 32x32 image to render on a PII-300, mainly because of AA0.01, 9x9 
samples, and maximum depth of 5...

Hohum, thanks for the comments anyway.  And just for you, I'll post the 
entire 1.3k .jpg <grin>

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> I have always wondered why POV-Ray for Windows
> comes such a boring tiled floor icon.
> 
> (Does anybody know?)

Nope. For my part, I have the icon of Mega-POV, so I don't even remember
the icon of POV. Why didn't you use it, or even the one called
"shapes.ico" or something like that, quite strange (which is now used as
the icon for the files with the extension .pov)?

Azrael
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Azrael wrote:

> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>
> > I have always wondered why POV-Ray for Windows
> > comes such a boring tiled floor icon.
> >
> > (Does anybody know?)
>
> Nope. For my part, I have the icon of Mega-POV, so I don't even remember
> the icon of POV. Why didn't you use it,

Because I have not installed Mega-POV yet.

(And I don't think I will as long as it remains many interesting features in

"standard" POV that I have not explored yet.)

> or even the one called
> "shapes.ico" or something like that, quite strange (which is now used as
> the icon for the files with the extension .pov)?

I wasn't aware of that one

Tor Olav

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