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From: Loki
Subject: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 9 Dec 2004 15:20:00
Message: <web.41b8b2881e518317d6c47ab10@news.povray.org>
Another crazy ambient image, this time using a wibbly isosurface, with
fogging and focal blur to try to give some scale and distance to the scene,
which is always a problem with these things.  Don't know what it's supposed
to be, except that it's supposed to be wobbly and cool. ;)  Sorry I can't
be bothered tracing it bigger than this for the time being, I need the PC
time for other things at the moment.  This already took 5 1/2 hours.

L
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From: Oskar Bertrand
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 9 Dec 2004 16:25:38
Message: <41b8c2d2@news.povray.org>
Loki wrote:

> Don't know what it's supposed to be, except that it's supposed to be wobbly and
cool. ;) 

You succeeded.


Oskar


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From: LuckyLook
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 06:40:11
Message: <41b98b1b$1@news.povray.org>
Well... It is extremely cool.

Would make an excellent wallpaper :)

LL


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From: Alf Peake
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 10:50:23
Message: <41b9c5bf@news.povray.org>
"Loki" wrote:

Looks good.

> Don't know what it's supposed to be,

Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after too much
happy juice ;) Others have done a POV-Ray copy and my latest version
is here <shameless plug>:
http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/escher1.jpg

Google images should show many versions.

Alf


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From: Dave Matthews
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 11:46:54
Message: <41b9d2fe$1@news.povray.org>
Alf Peake wrote:

> 
> Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after too much
> happy juice ;) Others have done a POV-Ray copy and my latest version
> is here <shameless plug>:
> http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/escher1.jpg
> 

Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen.  You 
got the angle and the dimensions correct, reproducing what I consider 
the most important feature of Escher's work, the hexagon of empty space 
just above the center.  Too many others just seem to say, "well, I got 
the boxes and the rectangular tubes, just like Escher, see?"  Escher was 
clearly emphasizing, as usual, the duality of object/space, contrasting 
the hexagonal cross-sectional shape of the cubes with that of the empty 
space.  (Or so I've always thought.)

Dave Matthews


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From: Loki
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 12:45:00
Message: <web.41b9df78f92b9fb4708ec4b0@news.povray.org>
Dave Matthews <ns### [at] nospamedu> wrote:
> Alf Peake wrote:
>
> >
> > Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after too much
> > happy juice ;) Others have done a POV-Ray copy and my latest version
> > is here <shameless plug>:
> > http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/escher1.jpg
> >
>
> Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen.  You
> got the angle and the dimensions correct, reproducing what I consider
> the most important feature of Escher's work, the hexagon of empty space
> just above the center.  Too many others just seem to say, "well, I got
> the boxes and the rectangular tubes, just like Escher, see?"  Escher was
> clearly emphasizing, as usual, the duality of object/space, contrasting
> the hexagonal cross-sectional shape of the cubes with that of the empty
> space.  (Or so I've always thought.)
>
> Dave Matthews

That image is cool Alf - I wasn't aware of the Escher print then I made
mine, but I can see the similarity.

L
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From: Florian Brucker
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 13:59:46
Message: <41b9f222$1@news.povray.org>
>> http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/escher1.jpg

> Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen. 

I'll second that. Apart from the right perspective, etc., it simply got 
this typical look Escher's drawings got, i.e. it looks like you actually 
drew (is that the correct past of "to draw"?) it by hand.

Nice job!

Florian
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From: Alf Peake
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 15:53:59
Message: <41ba0ce7@news.povray.org>
"Loki" wrote:
>> Alf Peake wrote:
>> > Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after
>> > too much happy juice ;) Others have done a POV-Ray copy and my
>> > latest version is here <shameless plug>:
>> >
> That image is cool Alf

Thanks, and I'm sorry Loki, I didn't mean to hijack your thread:(

Alf


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From: Alf Peake
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 15:54:00
Message: <41ba0ce8@news.povray.org>
"Florian Brucker" wrote:
>> Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen.
> I'll second that.

Thank you Florian.

> it looks like you actually drew

All based on a very old rounded_box macro of mine, using white for 
some of the rounded edges and a granite pattern for the rest.

> (is that the correct past of "to draw"?)

Looks OK to me.

Alf


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From: Alf Peake
Subject: Re: More Ambient Stuff
Date: 10 Dec 2004 15:54:24
Message: <41ba0d00$1@news.povray.org>
"Dave Matthews" wrote:
> Alf Peake wrote:
>> Looks like a version of MCEscher's Cubic Space Division after too
> Alf, that's the best computer-generateed version of it I've seen.

Thanks

> You got the angle and the dimensions correct,

Considering that MCE used pen and paper, his accuracy was remarkable
but I found it difficult to duplicate exactly. I assumed he was unable
to avoid errors.

> Escher was clearly emphasizing, as usual, the duality of

I don't understand all his work but I like the symetry here, and the
illusions and visual puns in others.

Alf


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