Preserved Topic: AA Chit - Looking for a Pic (Page 1 of 1)

After the success of Pugzly's Mensa cert. request, I thought I'd drop in a request for something I've tried and tried to find. A decent picture of an AA chit (I believe they're something akin to casino chips and they represent the number of years a person has been alcohol free). A long time ago I had a scene that I wanted to make in Pov, but a key ingredient in the scene was an AA chit, say a five year or greater. But, to date, I haven't managed to find a picture of one.

If anyone knows a link or has a picture of one, I'd appreciate it. Then I can go about recreating it for this scene.

To the best of my knowledge there isn't a "standard". Area committees, and even individual meetings, are free to choose whatever they'd like. Some locales use a card, others a medallion, but most use some sort of coin or chip. Here, they're about the size of an old silver dollar, in different colors of anodized aluminum for each month up to a year, bronze after that. Is that the sort of thing you were thinking?

"the most incredible feats are often accomplished by
those who have had the most incredible challenges"

Yea, that sounds about right. I didn't realize there was no set standard. That makes it easier, but I still wouldn't mind seeing a few examples. A card won't work for my scene though. I'm going to have to make it a metal coin or ceramic chip like object.

Did a quick look on goooogle and found this.
Don't know if this is the kind of thing you are looking for? http://www.network12.com/medallions/medallions.htm

Very cool! Thanks! Funny... It'd never occurred to me to try the word medallion.

And it seems that what we call a coin, others call a medallion.

"the most incredible feats are often accomplished by
those who have had the most incredible challenges"

Yeah must be the sculptor in me....round, non monetary=medallion.

Any results yet Witherin? Like to see what you create with them.
Are you simply going to use these images as texture maps....probably could use a higher resolution.

I haven't started anything yet. Today was a mix of dozing on the couch in the heat (o.k. so 75 F / 23 C may not be hot to most folks, but that's warm up here. Especially with the sun up almost 24 hours straight), and having a bunch of relatives over to visit. But I may get started on it tomorrow. I plan to recreate the basic layout of the topside of one of the medallions in PS and use it as a heightfield in POV. At least, that's my initial idea. It'll be faster than working with text directly in POV or exporting meshes of text from Rhino (text in the form of a mesh files tends to be huge).

Overall, I don't expect the scene to be too complex. But I'm going to have to build in some surrounding detail to handle reflections and such. Not sure what route I plan to take with that yet.