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https://sites.google.com/site/markwartanton/Home/ray-tracing/StarCut.zip?attredirects=0&d=1All of this material is for POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, unless otherwise noted. POV-Ray is fun to play around with, and it is especially popular with the DIY crowd. Users define scenes with a C-like language, or possibly with a 3rd-party modeling application. Because it's time-consuming to define scenes in any language, I find it beneficial to create objects that I'll repeat many times in the same scene or re-use in other scenes.
Shelves is a shelves macro I wrote, so that I could populate an interior scene with simple bookshelves. I actually make these shelves in real life, for myself and for other friends who like books.
Happy Daisies are fun; I used them on a greeting card, but I don't know if the idea for a greeting card came first, or if the idea of ray-tracing a bunch of daisies for the heck of it came first. I used it for a birthday card, and I realized that it might be considered somewhat macabre because the daisies could be perceived as being happy to see that the recipient is 1 year closer to death, after which the recipient would be “pushing up daisies.”
Spargel is German for asparagus. In Germany, Spargelzeit (literally “asparagus time,” when the asparagus stalks emerge from the ground) is sort of a special spring holiday, kind of like corn-on-the-cob season in the USA, only more thoroughly recognized. In Germany, they grow the asparagus “white” (well, sort of an ivory color) by keeping the emerging stalks sun-deprived under piles of soil and tarps, but since I was doing this in America, I figured I'd render them green, the way I like them.
You can use this Book macro to fill up your shelves, above.
StarCut is a useful macro I wrote to cut star shapes with arbitrary numbers of points and amount of pointiness. The image demonstrates this macro's versatility and ease.
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