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10 Mar 2026 10:50:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help: How to create a bolt?  
From: Mr
Date: 9 Mar 2026 04:40:00
Message: <web.69ae87539c1bf2d916086ed06830a892@news.povray.org>
"LanuHum" <Lan### [at] yandexru> wrote:
> Hi! I am interested in the question: is it possible to create a thread without a
> mesh of triangles? We need a smooth surface of the thread in the picture
> 38400x21600 (4K * 10)

Hi, Also, though it may be less physically accurate with respect to its
geometry,
this scene on Jaime Vives Piqueres site still works out of the box and features
a nice lighting and composition setup:
http://ignorancia.org/uploads/zips/boltstill.zip
....If you just drop all of the lightsys macro files within the same folder :
http://ignorancia.org/uploads/zips/lightsys4b.zip


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