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23 Apr 2024 08:01:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: After 22 years of not using povray  
From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Date: 12 Jan 2020 06:25:49
Message: <5e1b023d$1@news.povray.org>
Hi(gh)!

On 12.01.20 00:01, Anthony D'Agostino wrote:
> I haven't used povray since 1998. Today, in 2020, I started again. 
> Besides I never got a chance to use radiosity until now.

Hey, that's not before my time as a POVghan (started in 1995), but well 
before my first activities on povray.binaries.images (in autumn of 2000)!

> This rendering makes good use of three features: variable fresnel 
> reflection, which provides the specular highlight without using the 
> phong or specular keywords; multiple (8) area lights, which provide the 
> soft shadows and just a little bit of noise; and the Radiosity_Final 
> settings, which provide illumination of the indirectly lit areas.
> 
> Without these features the image would not have turned out the way I 
> wanted it to. It also renders in 3 minutes, which is pretty fast.

Absolutely lovely - and photo-realistic! What hardware did you use?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Firth of Fifth (Genesis)


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