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15 Nov 2024 16:14:50 EST (-0500)
  Re: Tree Stump [190k]  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 6 Jun 2003 20:03:54
Message: <3ee12bea@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Slime wrote:
> 
>>Very realistic.
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>>I think it's the color. Try something closer to grey, rather than brown.
>>Look at a real tree to copy.
> 
> 
> The colors are from real trees - i don't think it's too saturated
> (although a lot of trees are more grayish of course) but bark has some
> pretty complicated reflectivity properties and the geometry mostly is
> quite tricky as well (often there is a layered structure leading to pretty
> flat and shiny 'plateaus' between rougher parts).
> 
> Christoph
> 
Beautiful job.  The saturation of the color is what jumped out for me 
too.  It's not impossible, but it stretches believability.


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