Am 06.08.2020 um 08:36 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> Op 05/08/2020 om 18:46 schreef MichaelJF:
>> Sorry for the short delay of now some five years. I was occupied by 
>> some RL issues a while and frustrated after loosing all codes by a 
>> headcrash on a very new harddrive. Nearly, I had finished a very nice 
>> scene (The Lonely Swan) and lost all the code. Later I experienced a 
>> very heavy work load and at the beginning of this year a very severe 
>> disease of the lung. Now I bought a new machine and thought that this 
>> open issue would be a very nice test (core i7 vs. core i9). I rendered 
>> the image due to Clipkas suggestions with diffuse albedo 0.5,0.4 on 
>> all balloons. It has an little bit different mood since the colouring 
>> of the balloons is more visible in the distance. The backside 
>> illumination has a severe drewback: it doesn't work with the colour Blue.
>>
>> Enjoy
>> Michael
>>
> 
> Welcome back indeed!
> 
> I compared to the original scene from 2015. I prefer the original. Maybe 
> you could decrease both the diffuse albedo and the backside illumination 
> of the balloons a bit? Or maybe only the diffuse albedo as I think it is 
> too strong for the remainder of the scene. If I remember correctly from 
> the times I use diffuse albedo, it looks much stronger than the classic 
> diffuse and has to be tempered.
> 
Hello Thomas,

I agree completely. I Like the original better as well. But I wanted to 
give Clipkas proposals a try and it was an excellent test to my new 
machine. If I ever come up with the idea of a night glow scene I will 
revisit this scene.

Best regards
Michael

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