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From: Diane Duane
Subject: One Perfect White Rose...
Date: 30 May 1999 15:22:56
Message: <375181D0.556FE997@iol.ie>
Friends, 

The above is what I need.  My main problem at the moment is the attempt
to create rose petals.  (The stem is probably going to be a long skinny
cylinder, and is the least of my worries right now.)

I know I'm going to wind up layering the things.  But does anyone have
any thoughts on how rose petals might best be handled in terms of the
basic shape?  Can one or another of the primitives be successfully
mangled into a petal shape...say, discs "bent out of shape" and rotated?
Or very flat round-cornered triangles?  

Any scrap of code which anyone feels like throwing in my direction would
be extremely welcome.  

Best! -- Diane


Diane Duane / The Owl Springs Partnership
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/index2.html


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From: Jerry Anning
Subject: Re: One Perfect White Rose...
Date: 30 May 1999 17:27:33
Message: <37519d05.14478657@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 30 May 1999 19:22:09 +0100, Diane Duane <owl### [at] iolie>
wrote:

>Friends, 
>
>The above is what I need.  My main problem at the moment is the attempt
>to create rose petals.  (The stem is probably going to be a long skinny
>cylinder, and is the least of my worries right now.)
>
>I know I'm going to wind up layering the things.  But does anyone have
>any thoughts on how rose petals might best be handled in terms of the
>basic shape?  Can one or another of the primitives be successfully
>mangled into a petal shape...say, discs "bent out of shape" and rotated?
>Or very flat round-cornered triangles?  

Go to http://www.irtc.org.  Navigate to the previous rounds section.
Go to October, 1997 - "Arts and Entertainment".  The winner, "The
Drama of Cinema" by Glenn McCarter has an excellent rose.  Download
cinema.zip, which contains the pov code to create it and cinema.txt,
which contains his comments on the image and his email address.  It is
good for study, and I believe that he would give you permission to use
it directly.  For general pov-compatible modelling of that sort of
shape at the right (free) price, cosider sPatch, by Mike Clifton if
you are using Win95+.  It is pretty easy to do petals with sPatch.  It
is at http://www.cableone.net/alyson/spatch.html.
Beware!  Pov is an addiction!  Could cut into your writing time!

Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com


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From: Diane Duane
Subject: Re: One Perfect White Rose...
Date: 30 May 1999 18:53:15
Message: <3751B328.59E603AF@iol.ie>
> Go to http://www.irtc.org.  Navigate to the previous rounds section.
> Go to October, 1997 - "Arts and Entertainment".  The winner, "The
> Drama of Cinema" by Glenn McCarter has an excellent rose.  Download
> cinema.zip, which contains the pov code to create it and cinema.txt,
> which contains his comments on the image and his email address.  It is
> good for study, and I believe that he would give you permission to use
> it directly. 

Many thanks!  Will do. 

> Beware!  Pov is an addiction!  Could cut into your writing time!

(snort)  It already has.  :)  But hey, people have to relax somehow...
(like by rendering and *re*rendering and *rere*rendering and
*rerere*rendering a sphere on a plane...and moving four different light
sources around to see how the shadows fall...and screwing up the light
syntax and having to move everything around thirty more times...).  
Best!  D.


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: One Perfect White Rose...
Date: 31 May 1999 06:18:53
Message: <375253F6.35FCE7F4@aol.com>
Yes, sPatch would be fine. Finer still might be a iso surface, maybe
someone will have a tip on the correct shape. Or you could go about
guessing at one yourself. Just get the Super Patch if you haven't already,
if you can find it.
Reason I say this is because of the possible long parse time a collection
of bicubic_patch rose petals would cause.


Diane Duane wrote:
> 
> > Go to http://www.irtc.org.  Navigate to the previous rounds section.
> > Go to October, 1997 - "Arts and Entertainment".  The winner, "The
> > Drama of Cinema" by Glenn McCarter has an excellent rose.  Download
> > cinema.zip, which contains the pov code to create it and cinema.txt,
> > which contains his comments on the image and his email address.  It is
> > good for study, and I believe that he would give you permission to use
> > it directly.
> 
> Many thanks!  Will do.
> 
> > Beware!  Pov is an addiction!  Could cut into your writing time!
> 
> (snort)  It already has.  :)  But hey, people have to relax somehow...
> (like by rendering and *re*rendering and *rere*rendering and
> *rerere*rendering a sphere on a plane...and moving four different light
> sources around to see how the shadows fall...and screwing up the light
> syntax and having to move everything around thirty more times...).
> Best!  D.

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
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 mailto://inversez@aol.com?Subject=PoV-News


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: One Perfect White Rose...
Date: 31 May 1999 16:17:54
Message: <3752DFD5.EBACC6EA@pacbell.net>
Diane Duane wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> The above is what I need.  My main problem at the moment is the attempt
> to create rose petals.  (The stem is probably going to be a long skinny
> cylinder, and is the least of my worries right now.)
> 
> I know I'm going to wind up layering the things.  But does anyone have
> any thoughts on how rose petals might best be handled in terms of the
> basic shape?  Can one or another of the primitives be successfully
> mangled into a petal shape...say, discs "bent out of shape" and rotated?
> Or very flat round-cornered triangles?
> 
> Any scrap of code which anyone feels like throwing in my direction would
> be extremely welcome.
> 
> Best! -- Diane
> 
> Diane Duane / The Owl Springs Partnership
> http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/index2.html


-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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