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24 Dec 2025 23:11:17 EST (-0500)
  Re: Shrine (128K)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 30 Sep 2000 09:13:16
Message: <39D5E6EC.66057ADC@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Not a very interesting scene, but I kind of like the soft lighting and the
> colour scheme.
> Was originally intended as a quick test of outdoor diffuse lighting (radiosity
> only, no light_sources here). However, it turned into one of my longest renders
> ever - in excess of 70 hours for the original image @ 800x600 & AA 0.1. The main
> culprit was the isosurface ground - large, highly convoluted isosurfaces and
> radiosity are a dangerous mix.

[...]
> 

very true :-) 

There seem to be some parts of the ground isosurface floating seperated in space
(visible near the sculpture) not very important in this case (no shadows), but
very difficult to avoid.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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