>Edouard  on date 16/07/2010 09:41 wrote:
> Finally an actual scene - some ceramic art on display in a gallery.
>
> The pot is built from a bezier path (drawn in Illustrator and converted with
> some code I wrote in Smalltalk), then subdivided in SDL and turned into a mesh.
> The mesh points are then perturbed by an SDL function.
>
> The environment is an HDR light probe I shot a couple of weeks ago (it's the
> foyer of the University of Auckland business school). The lighting is providing
> by about 200 lights generated by LighMapGen from the HDR and converted into a
> POV-readable file with some Vim macros.
>
> The pot's glaze texture is done with my DF3 proximity macros, and the floor is
> my recent attempt at a wood texture.
>
> AA and DoF with my Camera35mm macros (in stochastic rendering mode). About 200
> passes. Total rendering time is about four and a half hours on my entry level
> MacBook Pro. POVRay 3.7b38.
>
> Lots to improve in the scene still (for a start I need to be able to write the
> mesh out to a file, and it's not even smooth triangles yet!). The stand the pot
> is on looks a bit too perfect to me, and that's distracting.
>
> But, all in all, I'm pretty happy with the current results. Looks very much like
> it did in my imagination, and that's always a good sign :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Edouard.
It looks very... awesome!
;-)
Paolo

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