"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>  Hiya Tim, welcome to the world of PovRay. Don't be nervous though, there
> are a whole bunch of people around here with varying expertise in many
> aspects of... erm, life, and CG art! If they can help in any way, they will,
> so just ask away in any of the groups for your subject.

Hi St.  I have to say I've gained a helluva lot of confidence with pov in
the past 36hrs.  Now just doing my best to not let it go to my head ;)


>   I like it, and I see where you're getting that angle on the leaves from.
> It's a very similar grass to the Timothy Grass we have here in the UK:
> http://strubi.uni-graz.at/projects/allerg_03.jpg

Oooh, what part of the UK are you from?  I'm from Perth, Scotland.  Brought
up 10miles north of Pitlochry (Scotland again) in the middle of nowhere.
I'd never considered that it looks so much like Timothy grass.  For the
next few months this is gonna annoy me, as I'm worried now maybe that's
what I remember as a kid.  I don't think it was, but I'm trying to model
the plants I remember fondly as a kid.  Hmmm, who could've thought the time
of year could be such a problem with povray?


>    Well, Googling images of the Meadow Foxtail, I notice that the actual
> shape of the flower-head(?) is more of a torpedo shape, maybe you could try
> that out? Generally though, your image is a nice, relaxing, mellow scene. A
> good start.

It's an inflorescence!  And no, I didn't know that before either.  :D  I
just stick to head or foxtail though, hehe.  About the torpedo shape, I
remember now that when I started on the inflorescence csg I realised I
should be using an isosurface or half sphere and half a stretched sphere
union.  I wonder why I didn't do that.  :-S  This is going into my TODO
list to be done when I find the colour variations on the leaves and stem.


>   (Sheesh! Listen to me. I sound like a teacher writing a school report!
> Anyway, you're A+ at the moment...)     ;)

Hehe cheers, wish you had been my art teacher at high school!

Tim

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"Tim" <tim### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>>  Hiya Tim, welcome to the world of PovRay. Don't be nervous though, there
>> are a whole bunch of people around here with varying expertise in many
>> aspects of... erm, life, and CG art! If they can help in any way, they 
>> will,
>> so just ask away in any of the groups for your subject.
>
> Hi St.  I have to say I've gained a helluva lot of confidence with pov in
> the past 36hrs.  Now just doing my best to not let it go to my head ;)


 Well, there's nothing that can't be done with PoV, so just keep 
experimenting.  :)


>
>
>>   I like it, and I see where you're getting that angle on the leaves 
>> from.
>> It's a very similar grass to the Timothy Grass we have here in the UK:
>> http://strubi.uni-graz.at/projects/allerg_03.jpg
>
> Oooh, what part of the UK are you from?

     North Wales. Originally from Swindon though. I think I'm the only pover 
from Wales, (that I know of).


I'm from Perth, Scotland.  Brought
> up 10miles north of Pitlochry (Scotland again) in the middle of nowhere.

    Ah, there's a couple of your fellow countrymen lurking around here 
somewhere. I'm sure you'll bump into them.



> I'd never considered that it looks so much like Timothy grass.  For the
> next few months this is gonna annoy me, as I'm worried now maybe that's
> what I remember as a kid.  I don't think it was, but I'm trying to model
> the plants I remember fondly as a kid.  Hmmm, who could've thought the 
> time
> of year could be such a problem with povray?

     Well, early April is flowering time for the Foxtail, so you should be 
able to see them now/soon. And I don't think you'll get them mixed up with 
Timothy grass because the flower head can be as long as 15cm compared to 
9cm.


>
>
>>    Well, Googling images of the Meadow Foxtail, I notice that the actual
>> shape of the flower-head(?) is more of a torpedo shape, maybe you could 
>> try
>> that out? Generally though, your image is a nice, relaxing, mellow scene. 
>> A
>> good start.
>
> It's an inflorescence!  And no, I didn't know that before either.  :D  I
> just stick to head or foxtail though, hehe.  About the torpedo shape, I
> remember now that when I started on the inflorescence csg I realised I
> should be using an isosurface or half sphere and half a stretched sphere
> union.  I wonder why I didn't do that.  :-S  This is going into my TODO
> list to be done when I find the colour variations on the leaves and stem.

   Looking forward to the next one then.


>
>
>>   (Sheesh! Listen to me. I sound like a teacher writing a school report!
>> Anyway, you're A+ at the moment...)     ;)
>
> Hehe cheers, wish you had been my art teacher at high school!

    :o)

   ~Steve~


>
> Tim
>

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