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8 Aug 2024 12:23:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Aussie Dollars  
From: PM 2Ring
Date: 15 Jul 2005 06:30:00
Message: <web.42d78f0c88096173950b81cf0@news.povray.org>
Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
> PM 2Ring wrote:
> > OTOH, it'd be a lot easier to persuade a real photographer with modern
> > equipment to do this for me. :)
>
> I'm not a real photographer, but I have food dye, a scanner and there's
> sure to be a dollar coin around here someplace.

Sounds good!

> I'd like to suggest through that you actually carve the edge of the coin
> rather than just making look like its carved. You'll notice your current
> image has a flat reflection on the bottom right where the carving is on
> the edge.

Sure. I've been trying to decide whether to use CSG or an isosurface. I'll
probably just go with CSG, and save the isosurface for a full isosurface
version, IOW isosurfaces for the coin faces as well as the edge.

> Give me a couple of hours to get this going and posted to you.

Thanks, heaps. Much appreciated, Rick.


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