[In addition to the usual edits I  have  corrected a little typo in the Short
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Short:    Small object with big ambitions
Author:   Ragnar Fyri (ragnar.fyri@daf.no)
Uploader: Ragnar Fyri (ragnar.fyri@daf.no)
Type:     pix/imagi

    To be honest I did not really invent this object, I found it in a 3D dra-
wing tutorial in a magazine  once.  What  I  *have* done is create an Imagine
version with colours and  (kind  of)  texture,  name  it  and make the rather
strange decision to turn the simple design into a "round robin" object.

    Starting with the name, "svirgel"  (pronounced  approximately  like "sea-
gull" with a few extra sounds) does not really mean anything (apart from this
object of course!), it is just a word I  came up with and liked the sound of.
At one point I found that I had used  the  same  name for a different object,
but I changed  that quickly...

    Now for the nominally  interesting  part:  The  svirgel  is a round robin
object. What I mean by that is that I  "challenge"  other 3D freaks to create
their own svirgel (in the format of whatever  program they are using), use it
in a picture and post it somewhere  (Amiga  users  would post it on Aminet of
course)  with a reference back to  this  file, which with a bit of luck would
get more people involved.

    This archive does not include an object  file because the idea is to make
your own with a personal touch. It's very simple really:
- Make three cubes with the axis at  the  center. (In Imagine this is done by
making a 1*1 plane and extruding it to its own length, then moving the axis).
- Rotate each cube 45 degrees on a separate  axis (One around the X axis, the
other around Y and the third Z).
- Give each cube a  visual  characteristic  that  makes it different from the
others. I used primary colours, you could  use different materials, textures,
whatever. Anything goes as long  as  the  object  is  still recognizable. You
could make cubes of ice, water and steam if you like!

    That's it. To make my own PCS  (Primary  Colour  Svirgel) look a bit less
dull I used the chrome attributes that came with the program, toning down the
shininess a bit so that the letters  both  cast  shadows and are reflected in
the surface. Two effects for the price of one. ;)


Credit Where Due Dept.:
To make the environment around the svirgel marginally more interesting I used
some files from Aminet.

Floor tiles: gfx/3d/FLOTIL10.lha          by Luca Guerri and Alessandro Boni
Lettering:   gfx/3dobj/Imagine_Fonts.lha  by Chris Poirier (uploader)


Asker, June 2002
Ragnar Fyri
ragnar.fyri@daf.no
ICQ# 38891981