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  Re: Mushy Sphere (37KB)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 19 Feb 2001 05:35:35
Message: <3A90F6F9.781355AC@gmx.de>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> I just found that POV-Ray had finished this image for me :)
> 
> This image also has an "overexposed" area, as Christoph
> mentioned about my "Other Bonds" image.
> 
> Again I have borrowed code from others:
> 
> For the radiosity settings I started with those in
> Xplo's post to povray.text.scene-files in August:
> 
> news://news.povray.org/399E20BC.BFD87A13%40unforgettable.com
> (Ermm... I modified them without knowing what I was doing.)
> 
> And for the textures and colors I modified (slightly)
> those that Gilles posted here:
> 
> news://news.povray.org/398EE231.F90E52DC%40inapg.inra.fr
> 
> The rendering time this for this image was about 6 hours.
> 

You might try reducing the light source a bit (to reduce the overexposure)
and set recursion_limit to 2 to weaken the strong shadows in the back
sections.  Also could use an isosurface instead of normal, i posted some
comparison test some time ago:

Subject: Re: YMFWR
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000

Of course that would be *really* slow...

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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