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Le 2011-12-01 09:36, Invisible a écrit :
>>> POV-Ray makes nice stone textures (unless you're a geologist) and wood
>>> textures (unless you're a dendrologist). Last time I checked, there's no
>>> way of making a canvas texture or a wet paper texture or a spilled paint
>>> texture or...
>>
>> By playing with gradient and checker textures, I'm sure you could come
>> up with a decent canvas texture in less than half an hour.
>
> Off you go then. :-)
>
Challenge accepted. I have a few hours ahead of me saturday as I baby
sit an Oracle upgrade.
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/* flabreque */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/* @ */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/* gmail.com */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }
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On 12/2/2011 8:19, Invisible wrote:
> I spent about a week reading Grokking the GIMP. I still can't get much more
> than the most basic tasks done with it.
I found the GIMP UI to be about on par with the Blender UI. Both suck.
Paint programs for some reason seem to have awful UIs. I haven't tried
photoshop, but even something like Paint Shop Pro has a UI that's pretty
opaque at time. Hey, I want to draw a circle with a blue border full of
red... OK, time to go figure out why it won't do it in the obvious way.
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People tell me I am the counter-example.
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On 12/2/2011 1:22, Invisible wrote:
> that a guy sitting in their bedroom cannot possibly hope to compete with or
> even approach this level of perfection in a finished design.
Meh. It just takes a lot longer. Buying better paint programs just makes it
faster. A $100 paint program gets you 80% of the way there if you don't need
fancy filters like to do content-aware fill or unblur a photo.
>> Sure. Clone brush.
> That doesn't work.
> No, wait, I rephrase: I have never yet seen it work. Is that better?
You have. Did you look at the links to the album on amazon I posted. That's
how I did it - all manually.
> God only knows how you hire the good guys...
Find a web site you like. Read the credits. :-)
> Yeah, probably. Few people apparently realise that being good at something
> is not the same as being good at teaching it...
Indeed.
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People tell me I am the counter-example.
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On 02/12/2011 07:39 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Paint programs for some reason seem to have awful UIs.
I miss DPaint...
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On 12/2/2011 13:53, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 07:39 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Paint programs for some reason seem to have awful UIs.
>
> I miss DPaint...
Funny enough, I was thinking of adding a comment to that effect before I
sent the message.
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People tell me I am the counter-example.
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>> Photos are *not* expensive.
>
> Interesting. Last time my parents had me and my sister photographed and
> framed, it ended up costing several hundred pounds. Obviously, I do not
> have that kind of money just laying around.
That's the joy of Google Maps at work - finding something that fits the
budget. :)
> (I did try using Google to find the place where we had it done, but it
> doesn't seem to exist any more... Some shop called Olan Mills. Wikipedia
> says something about the UK group being liquidated...)
Now *that's* funny, because my parents used to take my brother and I to
an Olan Mills (or perhaps it was Olin Mills?) studio in the Minneapolis
area.
Jim
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:02:04 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 01:04 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 12/1/2011 6:24, Invisible wrote:
>>> Given that calligraphy is a rare skill,
>>
>> And on what basis do you make that claim? That the people you never
>> asked never told you?
>
> That I've seen people try to do it, but I've never seen anyone succeed.
Try asking someone from Japan - Japanese calligraphy is extremely
intricate and one can spend years studying it, but those who do can be
very successful at it, and it's not a minority of the population (my
sister-in-law there studies and practices it).
Jim
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Le 2011-12-02 11:56, Francois Labreque a écrit :
> Le 2011-12-01 09:36, Invisible a écrit :
>>>> POV-Ray makes nice stone textures (unless you're a geologist) and wood
>>>> textures (unless you're a dendrologist). Last time I checked,
>>>> there's no
>>>> way of making a canvas texture or a wet paper texture or a spilled
>>>> paint
>>>> texture or...
>>>
>>> By playing with gradient and checker textures, I'm sure you could come
>>> up with a decent canvas texture in less than half an hour.
>>
>> Off you go then. :-)
>>
>
> Challenge accepted. I have a few hours ahead of me saturday as I baby
> sit an Oracle upgrade.
>
>
Sorry for being on topic...
Took a little over an hour in total, since I was distracted by my work
on the other PC, but I didn't spend more than 30 minutes writing the
code, even though I haven't touched POV-Ray in almost 5 years.
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/*Francois Labreque*/#local a=x+y;#local b=x+a;#local c=a+b;#macro P(F//
/* flabreque */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/* @ */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/* gmail.com */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }
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On 03/12/2011 01:51 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>>> Photos are *not* expensive.
>>
>> Interesting. Last time my parents had me and my sister photographed and
>> framed, it ended up costing several hundred pounds. Obviously, I do not
>> have that kind of money just laying around.
>
> That's the joy of Google Maps at work - finding something that fits the
> budget. :)
In my enterience, Google Maps is very bad at figuring out exactly where
stuff is (postcodes aren't very accurate spatially, after all), and an
extremely small number of business show up on the maps. Much better to
do a normal Google web search and go from there...
>> (I did try using Google to find the place where we had it done, but it
>> doesn't seem to exist any more... Some shop called Olan Mills. Wikipedia
>> says something about the UK group being liquidated...)
>
> Now *that's* funny, because my parents used to take my brother and I to
> an Olan Mills (or perhaps it was Olin Mills?) studio in the Minneapolis
> area.
Yeah, apparently it's an American company. (I always thought it was just
the one small shop in the village highstreet, but no, apparently it's
this huge company...) Apparently only the UK side shut down.
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On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:20:14 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 03/12/2011 01:51 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>>> Photos are *not* expensive.
>>>
>>> Interesting. Last time my parents had me and my sister photographed
>>> and framed, it ended up costing several hundred pounds. Obviously, I
>>> do not have that kind of money just laying around.
>>
>> That's the joy of Google Maps at work - finding something that fits the
>> budget. :)
>
> In my enterience, Google Maps is very bad at figuring out exactly where
> stuff is (postcodes aren't very accurate spatially, after all), and an
> extremely small number of business show up on the maps. Much better to
> do a normal Google web search and go from there...
All I did was go to Milton Keynes in maps and then searched on
"photography studio". Worked just fine.
>>> (I did try using Google to find the place where we had it done, but it
>>> doesn't seem to exist any more... Some shop called Olan Mills.
>>> Wikipedia says something about the UK group being liquidated...)
>>
>> Now *that's* funny, because my parents used to take my brother and I to
>> an Olan Mills (or perhaps it was Olin Mills?) studio in the Minneapolis
>> area.
>
> Yeah, apparently it's an American company. (I always thought it was just
> the one small shop in the village highstreet, but no, apparently it's
> this huge company...) Apparently only the UK side shut down.
Interesting....
Jim
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