From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-09-15T01:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Ruby Image


On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> 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.

feel free :)

cheers,
Mark

>
> 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
>
>
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