// Bob's Toy Top motion_blur example for MegaPOV [watch for line wrapping of
comments!]

#version 3.1;

// declaring clock as anything else doesn't work apparently
/*
#declare clock_type="D"
#include "clockmod.inc"
#declare dC=mclock;

#declare clock_type="S"
#include "clockmod.inc"
#declare sC=mclock;
*/

global_settings
{
  assumed_gamma 2.2 // PC
   // timestamp 1,5
  motion_blur 16,1.001-(pow(clock, .5 / 1)) // deceleration taken from
C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
}

// ----------------------------------------
camera
{
  location  <-3, 4.5, -9>
  direction 1.5*z
  right     4/3*x
  look_at   <.5, 1.5, 0>
}

sky_sphere
{
  pigment
  {
    gradient y
    color_map { [0 color rgb <.6,.8,.9>] [.25 color rgb <.3,.6,1>] [1 color
rgb <.1,.3,.6>] }
  }
}

light_source
{
  0*x // light's position (translated below)
  color rgb 1.5  // light's color
  translate <-30, 30, -30>
}

#declare C=clock;  // motion blur won't accept this either

// ----------------------------------------
plane { y, 0 clipped_by {box {-1,1 scale <10,1,10>}} pigment {color rgb
<0.7,0.5,0.3>}}

// $blur=yes;

// #if(blur)

motion_blur{

  union{

    cone {0,1,-2*y,0}
    sphere { 0, 1}
    torus {.5,.25 clipped_by {cylinder {-.25*y,.25*y,.5}} translate 1.125*y}
    texture {pigment {radial frequency 8} finish{specular .75 metallic 1
brilliance 1}}
  }

  // scale clock+.5
   translate (1.25-(.5-(clock*.5)))*y // move object down first to get
wobble
// rotate 720*dC*y rotate sC*60*x rotate (720-(360*sC))*y  // non-working
way
  rotate -(90*(1-(sin((clock - .5) * pi) / 2 + .5)))*y // S-wave taken from
C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
   rotate (pow(clock, 2)*(60*sin((clock - .5) * pi) / 2 + .5))*x // S-wave
taken from C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
    rotate (540-(1080*(pow(clock, .5 / 1))))*y // deceleration taken from
C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
  translate (1.25-(.425*clock))*y  // move back up so tip is at plane (not
accurate!)

 // translate <0,2,6*clock>
}

// #end


// omniVERSE
// http://users.aol.com/inversez/

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Take note that Nathan has said to put any clock redefinitions directly into
the motion_blur statement and it will see them fine from there.

Bob

"omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:385921d0@news.povray.org...
> // Bob's Toy Top motion_blur example for MegaPOV [watch for line wrapping
of
> comments!]
>
> #version 3.1;
>
> // declaring clock as anything else doesn't work apparently
> /*
> #declare clock_type="D"
> #include "clockmod.inc"
> #declare dC=mclock;
>
> #declare clock_type="S"
> #include "clockmod.inc"
> #declare sC=mclock;
> */
>
> global_settings
> {
>   assumed_gamma 2.2 // PC
>    // timestamp 1,5
>   motion_blur 16,1.001-(pow(clock, .5 / 1)) // deceleration taken from
> C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
> }
>
> // ----------------------------------------
> camera
> {
>   location  <-3, 4.5, -9>
>   direction 1.5*z
>   right     4/3*x
>   look_at   <.5, 1.5, 0>
> }
>
> sky_sphere
> {
>   pigment
>   {
>     gradient y
>     color_map { [0 color rgb <.6,.8,.9>] [.25 color rgb <.3,.6,1>] [1
color
> rgb <.1,.3,.6>] }
>   }
> }
>
> light_source
> {
>   0*x // light's position (translated below)
>   color rgb 1.5  // light's color
>   translate <-30, 30, -30>
> }
>
> #declare C=clock;  // motion blur won't accept this either
>
> // ----------------------------------------
> plane { y, 0 clipped_by {box {-1,1 scale <10,1,10>}} pigment {color rgb
> <0.7,0.5,0.3>}}
>
> // $blur=yes;
>
> // #if(blur)
>
> motion_blur{
>
>   union{
>
>     cone {0,1,-2*y,0}
>     sphere { 0, 1}
>     torus {.5,.25 clipped_by {cylinder {-.25*y,.25*y,.5}} translate
1.125*y}
>     texture {pigment {radial frequency 8} finish{specular .75 metallic 1
> brilliance 1}}
>   }
>
>   // scale clock+.5
>    translate (1.25-(.5-(clock*.5)))*y // move object down first to get
> wobble
> // rotate 720*dC*y rotate sC*60*x rotate (720-(360*sC))*y  // non-working
> way
>   rotate -(90*(1-(sin((clock - .5) * pi) / 2 + .5)))*y // S-wave taken
from
> C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
>    rotate (pow(clock, 2)*(60*sin((clock - .5) * pi) / 2 + .5))*x // S-wave
> taken from C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
>     rotate (540-(1080*(pow(clock, .5 / 1))))*y // deceleration taken from
> C.C.'s ClockMod.inc
>   translate (1.25-(.425*clock))*y  // move back up so tip is at plane (not
> accurate!)
>
>  // translate <0,2,6*clock>
> }
>
> // #end
>
>
> // omniVERSE
> // http://users.aol.com/inversez/
>
>
>

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omniVERSE wrote:

>// Bob's Toy Top motion_blur example for MegaPOV [watch for line wrapping of
>comments!]
>...

Thanks Bob,

Ingo

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omniVERSE wrote in message <385921d0@news.povray.org>...
>// [watch for line wrapping of comments!]
Why does this happen and is there anything one can do
to prevent it.


BTW nice top.

Peter

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Peter Warren wrote:

>   omniVERSE wrote in message <385921d0@news.povray.org>...
> >// [watch for line wrapping of comments!]
> Why does this happen and is there anything one can do
> to prevent it.
>
> BTW nice top.
>
> Peter

Well, the posting software usually can be set to send things out
correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
violation of the RFC's, goes ahead and wraps it for you when it comes
in. Just more of MS software being "helpful" and knowing better than you
the ignorant user and "better than" the standards created by the entire
global community.

oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
standard mail...

--
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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> Peter Warren wrote:
>
> >   omniVERSE wrote in message <385921d0@news.povray.org>...
> > >// [watch for line wrapping of comments!]
> > Why does this happen and is there anything one can do
> > to prevent it.
> >
> > BTW nice top.
> >
> > Peter
>
> Well, the posting software usually can be set to send things out
> correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
> violation of the RFC's, goes ahead and wraps it for you when it comes
> in. Just more of MS software being "helpful" and knowing better than you
> the ignorant user and "better than" the standards created by the entire
> global community.
>
> oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
> standard mail...
>

oops. Sorry. Forgot that there was an actual solution for the problem.

Install Netscape and use that for newsreading. Set the option to not wrap
incoming messages (which should not be needed, but is a work-around hack
for malformed posts from broken posting software such as MS Outlook)

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:


> correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
> violation of the RFC's,

What does RFC stand for ?

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Ken wrote:

> "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
>
> > correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
> > violation of the RFC's,
>
> What does RFC stand for ?
>

Well, since I understand Ken is not a programmer, I'll take it as an honest
question. (If it were coming from a programmer, especially one doing any
net programming at all, that question should have required an extremely
flame-on slam... but that's another story.)

From foldoc:
http://www.nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?query=rfc
gives
http://www.nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?Request+For+Comments


> Request For Comments
>
> <standard> (RFC) One of a series, begun in 1969, of numbered Internet
> informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial
> software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. Few RFCs are
> standards but all Internet standards are recorded in RFCs. Perhaps the single
> most influential RFC has been RFC 822, the Internet electronic mail format
> standard.
>
> The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on
> their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than
> formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason,
> they remain known as RFCs even once adopted as standards.
>

So, the standards for Mail, news messages, news transport, MIME, etc. are
all in RFC's. Too bad the MS programmers seem to not bother reading them
fully. (MSIE is also broken in HTTP/MIME, and in one point the spec even
has it in bold not to do what MS went ahead and did).

( if you're interested in what that one of the many is, see
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/web_midi.htm#tell_isp )

--
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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> 
> > "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> >
> > > correctly, but any Microsoft reading software is broken and in direct
> > > violation of the RFC's,
> >
> > What does RFC stand for ?
> >
> 
> Well, since I understand Ken is not a programmer, I'll take it as an honest
> question. (If it were coming from a programmer, especially one doing any
> net programming at all, that question should have required an extremely
> flame-on slam... but that's another story.)

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. In my business the holy grail of
specifications is the US Mil Specs. Barring available Mil Specs for a
job we design by customer specifications or through I.E.E.E. specification.
I then percieve the RFC to be basicaly a general consensus among those
in the know about how basic internet protocols are to be handled in the
absence of an "official" decree on the matter.

-- 
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Ken wrote:

> Thank you for your thoughtful reply. In my business the holy grail of
> specifications is the US Mil Specs. Barring available Mil Specs for a
> job we design by customer specifications or through I.E.E.E. specification.
> I then percieve the RFC to be basicaly a general consensus among those
> in the know about how basic internet protocols are to be handled in the
> absence of an "official" decree on the matter.
>

Actually, in the Internet world, the RFC's are the "official" decrees. It's just
that instead of some comitee sitting isolated in some little room and deciding
things that have little or no bearing on the real world, the work is done in
public, in full view of the entire world, and by anyone who cares to mess in it.
Thus the world takes them as the "authoritative" source of information. It's
somewhat like scientific peer-review taken to a much higher level.

Thus, when in the past when I've encountered a senior software archetect
responsible for crafting a client-server solution with Internet connectivity,
etc. who seriously asked "What's an RFC?", you can just imagine my reaction.

--
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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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>oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
>standard mail...

This has me thinking. I've wanted to change over to Netscape Navigator
completely for quite some time, but I have no idea how to "save" all my old
e-mails still in Outlook Express. Do you have any idea on how to "convert"
them from the M$ format to something NN understands?

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TonyB wrote:

> >oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
> >standard mail...
>
> This has me thinking. I've wanted to change over to Netscape Navigator
> completely for quite some time, but I have no idea how to "save" all my old
> e-mails still in Outlook Express. Do you have any idea on how to "convert"
> them from the M$ format to something NN understands?

Not sure. I have no idea how they are storing it for you. For me it was easy,
since I was using an Exchange server, I just used IMAP from Netscape to access
things.

You might want to see how to get at it.

Netscape is nice in that it uses the standard mailbox file format used by most
Unix programs. Both the Windows and Linux versions, so I can even use the same
exact files for folders when I'm in Windows or Linux.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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TonyB wrote:
> 
> >oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
> >standard mail...
> 
> This has me thinking. I've wanted to change over to Netscape Navigator
> completely for quite some time, but I have no idea how to "save" all my old
> e-mails still in Outlook Express. Do you have any idea on how to "convert"
> them from the M$ format to something NN understands?

If worse comes to worse you can foreward all of your past emails to your
self and retrieve them with Netscape there by creating a record of them
all. A bit tedious but I don't know enough about IE to be of much more
help than that. I do think that you will like Netscape once you have
made the conversion and get it set up the way you like it.

I am pretty sure that you can import your existing IE bookmark file into
Netscape though I haven't tried that either.

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>If worse comes to worse you can foreward all of your past emails to your
>self and retrieve them with Netscape there by creating a record of them
>all. A bit tedious but I don't know enough about IE to be of much more
>help than that. I do think that you will like Netscape once you have
>made the conversion and get it set up the way you like it.
>
>I am pretty sure that you can import your existing IE bookmark file into
>Netscape though I haven't tried that either.

I meant importing. I have all my e-mails here, and they're long gone from my
server (I delete upon receiving). It's a POP3 server, so the IMAP stuff Jon
mentioned doesn't apply. Basically I wanted to changed to Netscape, and upon
writing here went to investigate. I found that you can import the e-mails
from NN to OE and viceversa, so I changed to NN (temporarily, as I don't
like it). I can't get the "You've got mail!" sound to go off, and every time
I click on a message it automatically marks it as read, providing no option
to turn this off. Also, if I recall correctly, from 4.5 or before when I did
use it, the binaries had to be downloaded each time (they wouldn't stay on
my HD), so animations and images would give me problems. :(

Does anyone know how to work around these inconveniences, or will I just
have to stick to OE, and thus still _need_ to have Windows on this box?

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Thanks.
I just try to think to warn about the line wrap when I paste a text file and
post here even though I have line wrap set to 76 or 80.  I can never be sure of
what someones going to see at the other end or if I did the copy wrong, so it
just makes sense to tell about it.  One possible remedy is to maximize the
newsreader message windows.
I also try not to use any // (double forward slashes) with a word following
immediately having no space between the two.  Maybe MS Outlook is the only
program that does the file://wrong thing, I don't know, but even with everything
set to not do html it does that.

Bob

"Peter Warren" <int### [at] halcyoncom> wrote in message
news:3876f950@news.povray.org...
>   omniVERSE wrote in message <385921d0@news.povray.org>...
> >// [watch for line wrapping of comments!]
> Why does this happen and is there anything one can do
> to prevent it.
>
>
> BTW nice top.
>
> Peter
>
>

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omniVERSE wrote:
> 
> Thanks.
> I just try to think to warn about the line wrap when I paste a text file and
> post here even though I have line wrap set to 76 or 80.

I have line wrap set to around 100. I never have problems with wrapping
when posting highly indented Pov code.

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:23:06 -0500, "TonyB"
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

>>oooh.. and don't even get me started on how horribly they handle
>>standard mail...
>
>This has me thinking. I've wanted to change over to Netscape Navigator
>completely for quite some time, but I have no idea how to "save" all my old
>e-mails still in Outlook Express. Do you have any idea on how to "convert"
>them from the M$ format to something NN understands?

In short, no. That's one good reason wy I left OE behind (beside
crashing often taking down a group index file with it, and the
inability to recover old info after a Windows reinstall). I had to
download 90 MB of newsgroups, thrice, and the fourth time I just got a
decent newsreader and mail client. I still have 90 MB of the stuff on
a CD comewhere but have not yet found a way to convert it.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

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On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 21:30:53 -0800, Ken wrote:
>
>
>omniVERSE wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> I just try to think to warn about the line wrap when I paste a text file and
>> post here even though I have line wrap set to 76 or 80.
>
>I have line wrap set to around 100. I never have problems with wrapping
>when posting highly indented Pov code.

When do you post highly indented POV code?  What's your standard for
"highly indented" anyway?  Two or more spaces?  :)

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Ron Parker wrote:

> >I have line wrap set to around 100. I never have problems with wrapping
> >when posting highly indented Pov code.
> 
> When do you post highly indented POV code?  What's your standard for
> "highly indented" anyway?  Two or more spaces?  :)

Generaly when I re-post code created by someone else. Obviously it is
over kill with my highly stylized indenting methods...

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