Hi(gh)!

On 22.04.20 20:24, Norbert Kern wrote:
> This idyllic (non-realistic) scene is the result of several months of work. It
> took that long because of an experiment.

Lovely mallards! But I still miss a long-haired mustached olive-skinned 
swamp gypsy wading waist-deep through this swampy creek... or, maybe, a 
lynx on the prowl!

> I was curious about what would happen when only looking long enough at each
> parts of the scene and so detecting not so good parts.
> In fact I detected one flaw after another for three long months.
> So I substituted, changed or retextured nearly all objects, some of them several
> times.
> 
> In the end the scene used 155 individual objects - by comparison my recent redo
> of "warm_up" only used 21 meshes.
> So the scene contains 31 animals (9 birds, 7 mammals, 11 insects, 3 frogs and 2
> fishes).
> Since some of them are nearly invisible, I downloaded a 8000*4500 pixel version
> (
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/thread/%3Cweb.5ea0897b523527c5afdd13e10%40news.povray.org%3E/
> ).
> 
> Rendering this version took more than 9 days and 43 GB of RAM were used.

Ars longa, vita brevis (hopefully not too short!)... how much total RAM?

> I worked several weeks on an atmosphere alone, but in the end all I did was
> adding a subtle fog effect.
> 
> The chief motiv of the image is the contrast of light and shadows as it is
> important in impressionistic painting or gothic architecture.
> I'll explore this topic in my next images more.
> 
> Beside this philosophical reasons it was important for me in a more technical
> sense as it is the first image since 15 years developed with assumed_gamma 1.

Let us all hope you can render during the coming 150 years... 
Transhumanist technologies will also work for the good of raytraced art!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Earth Born (Kitaro)

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