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I've been taking screen shots of SolidNirvanian trippy patterns and using them as 2D texture wraps on 3D objects in Bryce. I mentioned to Princess Wei R. Doe, Queen of ALL the UFOs, that I was gonna try making a room out of these patterns, and she said it reminded her of a dream she had in which she walked into a room where every wall, and every object, each had a separate moving trippy pattern sliding over it. So, when I found this clip-art gal model, "ababe.DXF", I knew just where to put her. I was gonna place some regular furniture in the room, and started with the TV, but about that time, the size of the scene file became too huge (partly because of the 2D Nirvana pattern picts being larger than necessary, I think). So I left it with all these weird looking objects and the one normal looking TV.
Later I told Princess Wei that I had actually made the psychedelic room, and she said, "If you want to make it just like my dream, you could put a TV in there, and make that the ONE THING that ISN'T trippy-looking."
What a coincidence! I had already done just that. Simply amazing.
I think I am going to make a second room with actual furniture and a staircase, which I have already caught while binary-fishing. I'm not skilled at crafting 3D objects myself, so I rely on "clip art" in the form of .dxf and 3dmf 3D models that I scrounge off art websites and newsgroups. (Hmm... clip art... why do I have this feeling of deja vu?) The various Bryce CD ROMs, which I actually bought, have tons of .DXF objects. I'm not sure where this Anime looking girl comes from, but I wouldn't be surprised if she's a copyright infringement. I made her somewhat squatter than she was originally -- as if that would placate her owner. Squat "Bob"s in bootleg T-shirts don't placate me.