On 26-4-2017 15:42, Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 26.04.2017 13:21, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Recently, I found a blackbird eggshell and wanted to model its texture.
>> It gave me the opportunity to play again with some (UberPOV) settings I
>> like and using subsurface scattering throughout the scene.
>>
>> So, here we are with all objects showing subsurface scattering.
>>
>> UberPOV antialiasing set at +am3 +a0.01 +ac0.90 +r3 and using no_cache.
>> 2h20' render time with 6 cores. This would be much longer if using
>> +ac0.99 of course.
>>
>
> A dragon's egg... and when reading your subject, I initially thought (or
> better, hoped!) you tried to render the same-named neutron star of the
> cheela!
>
> That would be a cool project... but I would postpone it until I acquired
> reliable knowledge of spectral rendering, as to humans, the Egg is
> white-hot at about 9000 K, and any features on its surface are only
> discernible when viewed through cheela eyes!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>
> Now playing: Under the Orangish Sky (Michael Garrison)

Only by chance I am afraid. I am not acquainted with Robert Forward's 
work so I am out. Still, a nice example of syzygy isn't it?

-- 
Thomas

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