It's been a while since my last post, I was waiting until I got a render 
with no errors in it, but that doesn't look likely any time soon. So here we 
have the current stage of development.

Some big changes:
-A totally different volcano shape, with a much more violent feel to it. I 
like it but think maybe I went too far...
-The flying lava doesn't travel so far now, based on reference photos, 
though in this shot it's become too subtle so I'll crank it up some more.
-Lava rivers turned off -temporarily-! I was "improving" the algorithm, so 
currently it's totally broken.
-Heat haze underwater, looks a bit strange so I might get rid of it. But 
maybe when I put bubbles of steam in there it might all come together.
-Mountains! Finally the white cones in the background look like something 
real

And finally, the biggest change: All kindsa funky Megapov post-processing 
lens filters! Now before anyone criticises me for doing post processing 
please compare it to my IRTC winning entry from a couple of rounds ago, 
where I did a bunch of very similar effects the super-slow standard-pov way. 
At least doing them the megapov way just adds a short bit of time to the 
render, rather than making it 20 times slower!

Also, my suite of funky lens effects takes the form of a nicely 
parameterized include file which I will be distributing with the source to 
this image when I submit it to the IRTC. Ain't I nice?

Still to do:
-The aforementioned resurrection of the lava rivers
-fix that eliptical bug round the top of the volcano (anyone know why 
overlapping media-containers don't play nice together?)
-steam wherever lava touches water/snow
-...and something else... the left side of the image looks too calm, any 
suggestions?

And that's about it. What do you think?

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

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