Very serpentine.  A few of these scattered about in a thing called a "snake
pit" would do fine with a little color change.  Also very realistic looking
too, wonder if it's the simplicity or the artist touch? ;-)

Bob

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Since I spent 37.5 hours rendering this thing, I thought I would post it. It
is wallpaper size but compressed pretty small, hope it doesn't offend.

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Very good, in both size and quality.  The black&white turbulent gradient for
the surroundings might be confusing to those who wouldn't realize it's not
actually a texture on the object itself, but then maybe they also wouldn't
think about that.  And if it is a texture on that, excuse me please  ;-)

Bob

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"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> Very good, in both size and quality.  The black&white turbulent gradient
for

I put it there to make the slightly lighter reflection in the original
image. But I scaled it wrong and when I saw the reflections I left it that
way.

BTW, here's the macro, excuse the clunkiness, it's salvaged from some of my
first efforts.

///////////////   Begin CIRCLECOIL   ///////////////////

#declare TURNS = 8;          // total number of sub-loops
#declare RADIUSX = .25;    // mess with these to make oblong CIRCLECOIL
#declare RADIUSZ = .25;    // or wider coils // minor radius of CIRCLECOIL
#declare MRADIUSX = 1.25; // major radius of CIRCLECOIL
#declare MRADIUSZ = 1.25; // major radius of CIRCLECOIL

#macro CIRCLECOIL ( TURNS, RADIUSX, RADIUSZ, MRADIUSX, MRADIUSZ )

blob {

#declare I = 0+clock;
#while ( I < 1+clock )
//
////////////  Sphere  /////////////////////////////////
sphere { < 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 > 0.5, 2
          scale < 0.5, 0.05, 0.5 >
          translate < sin(I*((2*TURNS)*pi))*RADIUSX,
                      0.0,
                      cos(I*((2*TURNS)*pi))*RADIUSZ >

          rotate    < 0.0, 0.0, 90-(I*360) >
          translate < sin(I*(2*pi))*MRADIUSX,
                      cos(I*(2*pi))*MRADIUSZ,
                      0.0 >
       }
///////////////////////////////////////  end Sphere

#declare I = I + 0.001; // decrease to make smoother but takes longer to
parse
#end

            } // end union CIRCLECOIL
 #end

object { CIRCLECOIL ( TURNS, RADIUSX, RADIUSZ, MRADIUSX, MRADIUSZ )
          rotate    < 90.0, 0.0, 0.0 >
          pigment   { rgb < 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 > }
          finish    { ambient 0.125 reflection 0.95 }
          } // end object

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In article <3960ec67@news.povray.org>, "Bill DeWitt" 
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>           translate < sin(I*((2*TURNS)*pi))*RADIUSX,
>                       0.0,
>                       cos(I*((2*TURNS)*pi))*RADIUSZ >

Why not just use something like this instead:

translate vrotate(z, y*turns*360)*< RADIUSX, 0, RADIUSZ>

Or store the RADIUSX and RADIUSZ values in a vector, and do this:

translate vrotate(z, y*turns*360)*RADIUS

If you don't want the y value to go to waste, use it for the number of 
turns. :-)

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"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote :
>
> Why not just use something like this instead:
>
> translate vrotate(z, y*turns*360)*< RADIUSX, 0, RADIUSZ>

    Because I never did figure out vrotate.

    But I will not let that stop me from -using- what -you- figured out 8-)

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> Since I spent 37.5 hours rendering this thing, I thought I would post it.
It
> is wallpaper size but compressed pretty small, hope it doesn't offend.

Not at all... very nice.

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A little from colomb a. a little from colomb b. ... =)

Bob Hughes wrote:

> Also very realistic looking
> too, wonder if it's the simplicity or the artist touch? ;-)
>
> Bob

Here is another... Sort of sea urchent like...?

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Vector keywords give me a headache... I prefer the former... I understand the
math much better...

BTW. Thank you Bill... =)

Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Because I never did figure out vrotate.
>
>     But I will not let that stop me from -using- what -you- figured out 8-)
>
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"Moon47" <rdm### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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| Here is another... Sort of sea urchent like...?

Hey, that's neat stuff.  Ever thought of uncurling or curling such things up
in an animation?  Yeah, you probably have....

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