Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Thank you Steve, Setep and Christoph for encouraging me
> to do more of these.
> 
> This time I followed Christoph's advice to use change
> texture and use radiosity.
> 
> But since I'm not familiar with radiosity settings,
> I borrowed some code from a POV-file that Gilles Tran
> posted to povray.text.scene-files back in August:
> 
> news://news.povray.org/398EE231.F90E52DC%40inapg.inra.fr
> 
> This is my first radiosity image. And my P100 used about
> 70 minutes to render it.
> 

I looks good, the bright parts are a bit overexposed.  The radiosity
settings seem quite good, i suppose you used the same values Gilles used
in his picture.

> I have seen nice radiosity images posted by Gilles, Xplo
> and Kari, but I'm not able to tell how they differ.
> 
> Can anyone please try to explain me what I should look
> for when comparing those images ?
> 

The main problem about radiosity pictures are of course artefacts, a
strong normal like in your picture often avoids this to some extend.  Have
you had a look at my radiosity tutorial?

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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