Might there be a script out there to create a flat screen monitor?  I did
see a picture frame in one of the samples and I am going to start playing
with that to see if I can make it look the way I want, but in the mean time
I thought I might see if someone has a script I could use.

Also, I plan to take a screen shot and place it "in" the monitor I create.
How do I do that in Pov-Ray?

Carleton

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carleton nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/29 18:02:
> Might there be a script out there to create a flat screen monitor?  I did
> see a picture frame in one of the samples and I am going to start playing
> with that to see if I can make it look the way I want, but in the mean time
> I thought I might see if someone has a script I could use.
> 
> Also, I plan to take a screen shot and place it "in" the monitor I create.
> How do I do that in Pov-Ray?
> 
> Carleton
> 
> 
Create the frame of the monitor. This frame will have a recessed part for the 
screen.
In that part, you place a box with an image_map of your screen shot. Give it 
finish{ambient 0.95 diffuse 0.05}. The light coming to the ecreen actualy have 
an effect.
The image start at <0,0> to <1,1> in the x-y plane. It's extent is independent 
of it's actual resolution. We start with a box that is the same dimention as the 
default dimention of the image_map, then we scale the box to the desired dimention.
So you can start with:

box{0,<1,1,0.1> texture{image_map{ImageType, "your_image.xxx"}finish{ambient 
0.95 diffuse 0.05}} scale Your_dimention thanlate Screen_Bottom_Left}

ImageType can be  gif | tga | iff | ppm | pgm | png | jpeg | tiff
.xxx is the actual extention of the image file that you want to use.

There are other parameters that can be used, and are often very usefull. Please 
read the documentations about image_map.

This technic can also be used for non_flat monitors and TV screens. Just replace 
the box with a flatened sphere: scale<1,1,0.01>

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Alain
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