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8 Aug 2024 01:15:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: crystal test  
From: Mienai
Date: 28 Oct 2005 13:45:00
Message: <web.436262e86083156693db03e80@news.povray.org>
"dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:
> Its the nature of crystals to be orderly to perfect. This looks more like
> something moulded with muck in it. If it's meant to be crystalline then drop
> the swirlies. Unpolished mineral crystals have torn up surfaces but often
> near-perfect interiors with perhaps a few inclusions.
> DLM - some-time crystallographer.


The idea wasn't to make something like a precious gem but more along the
lines of a translucent crystal with veins such as quartz, which I've seen
many similar to this but not in blue.


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