Veijo:

Awesome.  Very nice combination of realism and the fantastic.
I am inspired to try something like this on my own.

Aaron



"Veijo Vilva" <vei### [at] animalhelsinkifi> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I resumed work on the image I submitted to the Sep - Oct
> 2002 IRTC. After adding radiosity and photons, the result
> was much too white so I changed the material of the terrain
> from white stone to light wood randomly mixed with dark wood.
> The present terrain consists of just two types of elements:
> about 15,600 light wood cylinders with dark silver knobs and
> 780 dark wood cylinders with a thin golden torus at the top
> and a small glass sphere hanging slightly above the top end.
>
> All the colour differences are caused by the illumination,
> either directly by the colour of the surrounding lights or
> else by reflection and refraction. The soft reflections below
> the harpsichord are caused by multiple reflections between two
> plates of glass. The flute is illuminated in varying degrees
> by the light refracted by the sphere above it.
>
> The eye is a composite of a small segment of a photograph and
> a glass sphere on the iris to reflect the lights in a more
> natural way. There is a bozo height field glass plate in front
> of the eye so I can render the image at 7620x5080 without fear
> of all too obvious pixelation (the original is about 400 pixels
> wide only).
>
>    Veijo
>


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