A frame from an amimation. The body parts of the space ship are made mostly of some combination of cylinders, spheres and torus joined in a union and then located using conditionals. The nozzle and communication dish are primarily spheres that have been scaled in some fashion and then clipped. The background was created using galaxy.inc which can be found at this link.

A frame from an animation. Here the primitive shape stays stationary while the image map flows around. In order to keep the day/night boundry at the same corners it was necessary to use a special set of sequenced images that had the correct motion. Here's a very tiny AVI that will show this better. My tutorial on CLOCK and IMAGE MAPS explains how to use this techinque of mapping.

This is part of one of my first radiosity tests. It was a real chore getting the lights right 'cause like most things POV I didn't really know what I was doing at first and was working by trial and error. The transparent glass texture took some tweaking with many very small increments applied to the rgbt and reflection values before I was happy. And there's media applied to the interior of the small bulb as well. These prototype bulbs have worked their way into an animation with a few improvements to the metals textures. Lots of work but now I know how.

This is a mockup of a product shot. The label is an image mapped cylinder and the rest of the container's parts are made from the usual primitives. The icecube is made from a quadratic (super quadratic ellipsoid? can't remember) with pattern modifiers. The water is a very flattened sphere. Lighting is done in a commercial photography style.

This image was created with the help of btga2pov, a small utility program I wrote and available at this site. It reads in a TGA file and creates a POV include with each pixel value of the TGA being mapped to primitives, in this case spheres.

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