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From: Charles C
Subject: showing tail
Date: 28 Jun 2007 18:15:01
Message: <web.4684311eeb56e478e94cc5130@news.povray.org>
Show & tail?  Showing some tail?  For what it's worth, here's something:
Charles


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 28 Jun 2007 19:16:18
Message: <46844142@news.povray.org>
Charles C wrote:
> Show & tail?  Showing some tail?  For what it's worth, here's
> something: Charles

Ooh, *very* nice scales! But it's a bit dark, so it's difficult to see the 
exact shape.

Rune
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http://runevision.com


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From: Charles C
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 29 Jun 2007 00:55:02
Message: <web.46848f2e88e7aaf7e94cc5130@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <new### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
> Ooh, *very* nice scales!

Thanks!


>But it's a bit dark, so it's difficult to see the
> exact shape.

Up close you can see the shape is pretty simple.  This is my temporary test
scale. I intend to replace it with a code-generated mesh with a little more
interesting and parameterizable shape, but other parts of the project have
higher priority.

Charles


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 29 Jun 2007 07:18:09
Message: <4684ea71$1@news.povray.org>
Charles C wrote:
> "Rune" <new### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
>> But it's a bit dark, so it's difficult to see the
>> exact shape.
>
> Up close you can see the shape is pretty simple.  This is my
> temporary test scale. I intend to replace it with a code-generated
> mesh with a little more interesting and parameterizable shape, but
> other parts of the project have higher priority.

Actually I was thinking more of the overall shape of the tail. For example, 
I find it difficult to see if the end of the tail points away from or 
towards the camera, since the lighting cues are very sparse.

Rune
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From: Charles C
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 29 Jun 2007 14:10:01
Message: <web.4685499988e7aaf7e94cc5130@news.povray.org>
I'm not sure if this variation is much better.

I think the white here looks a little flat.  Is there a trick to getting
highlights to show up on white?  Yellow looked flat too.

A checker pattern between <1,.5,1> and <0,0,0> was the pattern used to help
control the overall-chroma that I'd been feeding into the macro which
selects which texture each scale uses, (the macro only cares about the
..y/green value for this pattern). But when I switched to using that pigment
directly the color reminded me of the plastic spoons at a certain chain of
ice-cream shops.  OTOH highlights did show up pretty well on that color.

Charles


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From: Marc
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 29 Jun 2007 17:34:00
Message: <46857ac8$1@news.povray.org>

web.4685499988e7aaf7e94cc5130@news.povray.org...
> I'm not sure if this variation is much better.
>
Where isssss the reflecting sssssphere? ;-)

Marc


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: showing tail
Date: 30 Jun 2007 10:32:01
Message: <46866961@news.povray.org>
Charles C nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/06/29 14:04:
> I'm not sure if this variation is much better.
> 
> I think the white here looks a little flat.  Is there a trick to getting
> highlights to show up on white?  Yellow looked flat too.
> 
> A checker pattern between <1,.5,1> and <0,0,0> was the pattern used to help
> control the overall-chroma that I'd been feeding into the macro which
> selects which texture each scale uses, (the macro only cares about the
> ..y/green value for this pattern). But when I switched to using that pigment
> directly the color reminded me of the plastic spoons at a certain chain of
> ice-cream shops.  OTOH highlights did show up pretty well on that color.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
Don't use white but a light gray, like Gray80 or Gray90.
Reduce the diffuse a bit and increase specular or phong.
Increase brilliance.

-- 
Alain
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'No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'' -- Dr. Who


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