On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:30:02 +0000, William Tracy wrote:

> I remember a programming class where the instructor challenged people to
> write quines (programs that recreate their own code). Someone created a
> program and named it "caffiene". All it did was run the shell command
> "more caffiene". :-P

Nice....

Jim

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hmm, I made this a while ago.  It grew out of an even simpler scene to test
"ambient occlusion" in povray as someone posted some fake ambient occlusion
of sorts with megapov in this forum.  Less may not really be more, but it's
certainly sweet. :)

And about Disney:  well, the big evil corp may be bad, but the cartoons sure
are memorable.  Some think they are more kiddy than the Warner classics, but
these people seemingly never saw the common man Goofy cartoons from the 50s
or the southern neurotic Donald.  Absolute high quality humor.  And I can't
believe someone in this day and age has never seen such a widespread 20th
century icon as Disney's trademarked spherical mouse ears...

The povray source for the scene:


global_settings{
  radiosity {
    pretrace_start .08
    pretrace_end   .004
    count 20
    nearest_count 20
    error_bound .9
    recursion_limit 3
    //low_error_factor .02
    gray_threshold 0.0
    minimum_reuse 0.005
    brightness 1.2
    adc_bailout 0.001/2
    //normal on
  }
 assumed_gamma 1
 max_trace_level 10
}

/* sky sphere */
sphere { 0, 10000
 pigment { rgb .86 }
 finish { ambient .9 diffuse .5 }
}

union {
 sphere { x 1 }
 box { -1,1 pigment { rgb <.4,1,.3>*.8 } translate 1.4*(-1.3*y-x) }
 sphere { -x*1.1 1 rotate 33*-z pigment { rgb <.4,.9,1> }
  finish { ambient -.1 specular 1 roughness .005 brilliance 2 reflection {
..2,.6 metallic .3 fresnel on } }
 }
 plane { -z 0 }
 plane { -y, -1.6 }
 plane { x, -4.5 }

 pigment { rgb 1 }
 finish { diffuse .9 brilliance 1 ambient -.03 }

 translate z*6
}

light_source { 0 .1 translate 1000*(-4+9*x) }

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Attachments:
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Preview of image 'ambient_occlusion2.jpg'

and BTW, here's the original ambient occlusion scene.  Guess it makes a good
wallpaper as well in a higher resolution.  Perhaps lowering count a bit
helps there... :)


global_settings{
  radiosity {
    pretrace_start .04
    pretrace_end   .006
    count 300
    nearest_count 20
    error_bound .1
    recursion_limit 3
    //low_error_factor .02
    gray_threshold 0.0
    minimum_reuse 0.005
    brightness 1.5
    adc_bailout 0.001/2
    //normal on
  }
 assumed_gamma 1
 max_trace_level 10
}

/* sky sphere */
sphere { 0, 10000
 pigment { rgb .86 }
 finish { ambient .9 diffuse .5 }
}

union {
 sphere { x 1 }
 sphere { -x*1.1 1 rotate 33*-z }
 plane { -z 0 }
 plane { -y, -1.6 }
 plane { x, -4.5 }

 pigment { rgb 1 }
 finish { diffuse .9 brilliance 1 ambient -.03 }

 translate z*5
}

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Attachments:
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Preview of image 'ambient_occlusion.jpg'

scam wrote:
> Just so all bases are covered, here's the more version.

Ooh!

At first glance, it looks like water droplets.

I think I like this more than the first version, actually. :-)

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William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you see the movie credits 
going by and instead of seeing Lenses by Panaflex it always seems to say 
Lens Effects by Chris Colefax.
Ken Tyler

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> ...like in this image:
> http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Watches/mm-ww-timex.JPG
>
> Thomas

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=orlando,+fla&ie=UTF8&ll=28.396233,-81.577413&spn=0.006512,0.014269&t=h&z=17&om=
1

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news: web.46491a97dc8ac3995e73ab330@news.povray.org...
>
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=orlando,+fla&ie=UTF8&ll=28.396233,-81.577413&spn=0.006512,0.014269&t=h&z=17&om=
> 1


I notice in map mode the pond is 'potato' shaped.
Did the drawer feared being sued?
Now he is under Mc Cain's threat :-p

Marc

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i will sujest to keep only 2 --- (1 smal , 1 big )-but keep the same
emplacement





news:web.46472aa069eefd8b8728aa0b0@news.povray.org...
> I tried to do one of those minimalist images, but I'm not sure if I ended
up
> with less or more.
>


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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> "scam" <sca### [at] mailusydeduau> schreef in bericht
> news:web.4648594fdc8ac3998728aa0b0@news.povray.org...
> > No more then a minute or two; Disney wasn't really part of my childhood.
> > Google isn't turning up anything obvious, could you let me in on the joke?
> >
>
> The three spheres form the outline of Disney's Mouse  :-)
>
> Thomas

Makes me wonder just how minimalist an image-of-three-circles needs to be,
in order to keep those wonderful Disney folks from sniffing around, looking
for blood. It IS such an iconic image--one large circle with two smaller
ones above. I wonder: If it's turned upside down, does that make it a
different design?  :-P   Hmm, probably not--their lawyers are no doubt onto
such tricks....

But I do love their theme parks!

KW

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Kenneth wrote:
> Makes me wonder just how minimalist an image-of-three-circles needs to be,
> in order to keep those wonderful Disney folks from sniffing around, 

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     His kernel fu is strong.
     He studied at the Shao Linux Temple.

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My first thought exactly...


"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message 
news:46485559@news.povray.org...
> scam nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 13 / 05 / 2007 20:24:
>
>> "Marc" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
>>> Equal?
>>> Hum prepare yourself to the visit of Disney lawiers :-)
>>
>> That certainly is cryptic to someone who hasn't seen many Disney movies!
>> Have I infringed the copyright of some small, singing & dancing cartoon
>> character?
>>
>>
> Have you ever seen any Mickey Mouse cartoon?
>
> -- 
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> 'hAS ANYONE SEEN MY cAPSLOCK KEY?'

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