From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-09-15T01:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Ruby Image

Mark Hubbart wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
>
> > Hello Group,
> >
> > I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
> > slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice
> > ruby
> > gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
> > somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
> > for my talk.
>
> Here's one that I masked off a few days ago:
> http://homepage.mac.com/discord/big-ruby.png  (~700k)
>
> It's really difficult to find anything of a decent size; It seems that
> high quality pictures of gemstones don't really exist :/

Can I add this to the WhyRuby repository? This one is pretty good. I'd still
like to get a ray traced version that's not so dark.

James, this one would probably make a better model than the images I
posted -- I think the oval shape is more interesting than round.

Curt