Hi,

I want to create a Christmas card with the following:

- 4 or 5 shiny balls. On the balls, I want to superimpose a picture of
people's faces. I'd like the pictures to have fading edges so it looks
like they're blending into the ball or give the appearance of sinking into
the balls (as if the balls were the frame for the picture).

- I'd like to make it look like the balls are hanging on a Christmas tree
branch of some sort

I don't know the first thing about doing this and I've got about..
oooh...30 hours left before Christmas now? :-)

Does anyone know where I can get some hold-my-hand-and-follow-a-recipe-
to-get-started information on doing this? I figure with a recipe and an
understanding of what parts of the file represent which part of the scene,
I can probably figure something out.

Thanks,

L

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:37:46 -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to create a Christmas card with the following:
> 

Oh, and I'm on Linux using 3.5c. I located one example of Christmas
decorations in the scene group which I'm looking at also. 

L

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:37:46 -0500, Laurent Duperval <ldu### [at] videotronca>
wrote:

>- 4 or 5 shiny balls. On the balls, I want to superimpose a picture of
>people's faces. I'd like the pictures to have fading edges so it looks
>like they're blending into the ball or give the appearance of sinking into
>the balls (as if the balls were the frame for the picture).
>
>- I'd like to make it look like the balls are hanging on a Christmas tree
>branch of some sort
>
>I don't know the first thing about doing this and I've got about..
>oooh...30 hours left before Christmas now? :-)
>
>Does anyone know where I can get some hold-my-hand-and-follow-a-recipe-
>to-get-started information on doing this? I figure with a recipe and an
>understanding of what parts of the file represent which part of the scene,
>I can probably figure something out.
>

For speed I sent a zipped file to povray.binaries.scene-files with a xmas ball
made in Moray and using an image map. No fading edges (I don't know what you
want) but you might be able to do something with the image. The moray file is
part of the Moray tribute scene. I am sure Steve Shelby wont mind (if it was him
who made it)

>"In Europe, do you think Miles Davis is known as Kilometers Davis?  Thank
>you."

Not in the UK and our mile are the same as yours:-}

Regards
        Stephen

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:27:47 +0000, Stephen McAvoy wrote:
> For speed I sent a zipped file to povray.binaries.scene-files with a xmas
> ball made in Moray and using an image map. No fading edges (I don't know
> what you want) but you might be able to do something with the image. The
> moray file is part of the Moray tribute scene. I am sure Steve Shelby wont
> mind (if it was him who made it)
> 

Wow! Cool! Thanks a lot! Let,s see what I can come up with!

L

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Laurent Duperval wrote:

> - I'd like to make it look like the balls are hanging on a Christmas tree
> branch of some sort

Here is your Christmas tree branch -
http://objects.povworld.org/cat/Nature/Trees/

Merry Christmas!

-- 
Ken Tyler

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:48:59 -0800, Ken wrote:
> Here is your Christmas tree branch -
> http://objects.povworld.org/cat/Nature/Trees/
> 

Nice! Thanks! With a bit of fudging, maybe I can generate something that
looks like a tree.

Thanks,

L

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:27:47 +0000, Stephen McAvoy wrote:
> For speed I sent a zipped file to povray.binaries.scene-files with a xmas
> ball made in Moray and using an image map. 

Well, I tried what I wanted to do using the image of the face but, err,
let's just say I'm not supposed to look *that* fat. So I guess that's not
the effect I want. Thinking about it, how can I declare a ... square
object, I guess, which includes my image in it, as the texture. But I want
the image to shrink and grow along with the square. Then, I would use the
ball definition, make it transparent and only show the intersection of my
image with the ball. So in effect, it would look like the ball is made of
coloured transparent glass and the picture is encased in it.

I'm trying some stuff but I'm not getting the results I want. I'll post a
different message to troubleshoot.

After that, I'm thinking of making the balls move a bit so it looks like
the wind is blowing or something. 

Sigh, so many ideas, so little talent and so little time. :-)

Thanks,

L

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