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From: the ajj
Subject: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 20 Nov 2005 15:45:01
Message: <web.4380dfb1a40da1174e0900bb0@news.povray.org>
....got bored after 45 digits...  comments welcome !


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 20 Nov 2005 16:13:49
Message: <4380E675.5080406@hotmail.com>
the_ajj wrote:
> ....got bored after 45 digits...  comments welcome !
> 
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> 
looks very realistic

comments:
- I would have expected that ball 1 would have had the marking 314,
   ball2 159 etc untill ball15 939. You have labeled them in top to
   bottom left to right fashion with the colors more or less random.
   I admit that the 'right' labels and random balls would be less
   understandable. OTOH the first is not readable because of the focal
   blur, so most people would need the caption anyway to understand
   what this is about.
- You may not be aware of it, but you have used part of the lyrics
   of a song from Kate Bush's latest album. I don't think that this
   is a violation of copyright, however, because there is prior art
   in this case.


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From: the ajj
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 20 Nov 2005 16:25:01
Message: <web.4380e9a8663c05194e0900bb0@news.povray.org>
Fair comments - I'll have a look at renumbering - starting 314 bottom left -
going right then up! Probably will be better.

Thanks for the advise on (c).


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From: the ajj
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 20 Nov 2005 17:05:02
Message: <web.4380f273663c05194e0900bb0@news.povray.org>
Reorganised the balls.......


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From: Rick Measham
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 20 Nov 2005 18:05:10
Message: <43810126$1@news.povray.org>
the_ajj wrote:
> Reorganised the balls.......

Other than saying I love the look of this ....

... I think this organisation is very poetic. The more digits you get 
into pi, the harder it is to calculate .. it just gets fuzzier and 
fuzzier :)

Cheers!
Rick Measham


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 21 Nov 2005 01:26:07
Message: <pan.2005.11.21.06.26.03.748396@nospam.com>
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:05:10 +1100, Rick Measham wrote:

> the_ajj wrote:
>> Reorganised the balls.......
> 
> Other than saying I love the look of this ....
> 
> ... I think this organisation is very poetic. The more digits you get into
> pi, the harder it is to calculate .. it just gets fuzzier and fuzzier :)

Yes, I agree with this, very cool poetry there.

Jim


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From: Matthias Weißer
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:55:45
Message: <4381ee01@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson schrieb:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:05:10 +1100, Rick Measham wrote:
> 
>> the_ajj wrote:
>>> Reorganised the balls.......
>> 
>> Other than saying I love the look of this ....
>> 
>> ... I think this organisation is very poetic. The more digits you get into
>> pi, the harder it is to calculate .. it just gets fuzzier and fuzzier :)
> 
> Yes, I agree with this, very cool poetry there.

Right. That is great. Where is the 1600x1200 Version to use it as a 
desktop background?


-- 

mat### [at] matweide
http://www.matwei.de


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From: Jaap
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 21 Nov 2005 15:10:01
Message: <web.4382290a663c0519a8399d8d0@news.povray.org>
very nice.
If I may just make one comment, i think the focal blur is a bot over the
top.
Half the blur would look better i think. If you get this much blur then your
nose is so close to the object that you would expect some distortions
towards the edge of the image.


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From: Frango com Nata
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 21 Nov 2005 16:25:00
Message: <web.43823a77663c05198048c0800@news.povray.org>
I find it nice, too. By the way, how did you get pi's digits? Did you just
write the first 45 of them, or did you use some algorithm to calculate as
many as wanted?


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From: the ajj
Subject: Re: The Pi Pool Balls
Date: 22 Nov 2005 06:10:01
Message: <web.4382fbe3663c0519a43155f60@news.povray.org>
"Frango com Nata" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I find it nice, too. By the way, how did you get pi's digits? Did you just
> write the first 45 of them, or did you use some algorithm to calculate as
> many as wanted?

Nothing too fancy I'm afraid.  I got the digits themselves off the web.  I
then created an image map for each of the balls with the relevant digits.


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