Hi all,

this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.

I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.

The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
the corkscrew.
The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
by Nathan Kopp.
And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.

I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
screen.
I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
one more high res render.

So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
whatever out there?

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I'd go the whole way with photons just for the hell of it.

Also to me the sun looks a little small.

Also, I don't know how big these lilies are in real life but compared to the
bottle they seem very large.  But I suppose if the sofware is "LILYview"
then you'd want them to be the dominant object.


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3ce1328f@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
> this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.
>
> I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
> software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
> its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
> freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
> sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.
>
> The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
> are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
> the corkscrew.
> The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
> vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
> by Nathan Kopp.
> And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.
>
> I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
> a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
> screen.
> I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
> in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
> one more high res render.
>
> So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
> whatever out there?
>
>
>
>
>

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What does this software actually do?

I'm curious.

Is

Ive wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.
> 
> I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
> software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
> its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
> freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
> sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.
> 
> The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
> are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
> the corkscrew.
> The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
> vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
> by Nathan Kopp.
> And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.
> 
> I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
> a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
> screen.
> I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
> in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
> one more high res render.
> 
> So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
> whatever out there?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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"Is" <ism### [at] nospanfirmlogicnet> wrote in message
news:3CE### [at] nospanfirmlogicnet...
> What does this software actually do?
>
> I'm curious.
>
> Is
>
LILYview is just one more image viewer, converter, editor, thumbnail
maker and so on...
...but with some features I always missed when using other software, so
I have done one by my own.
- some features are:
- imports LogLUV high color resolution TIFF images and can adjust
the brightness for them by using the StoNits tag (to calculate absolute

a great feature for POV-RAY doing output in LogLUV color format
(as some other raytracers already do).
- it displays all PNG-images from the PNG test-suite in the way they
should. Except the PNG-Reference viewer no other application that
I know does.
- The PNG compressor produces significant smaller files as e.g. Photoshop.
- Imports Poser bump-maps
..and much more, but I do not want to advertise my software, I just did
go for some feed back on my Lily view picture.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that LILYview works only on Windows
platforms.

So long
-Ive

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The bottle is empty..... how come?

--
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> LILYview is just one more image viewer, converter, editor, thumbnail
> maker and so on...

That sounds like a program I'd like to get my hands on, give us a call when
you're done? :)

>..and much more, but I do not want to advertise my software, I just did
>go for some feed back on my Lily view picture.

I like your picture, looks great!
Some things I thought of:
"Round off" the table a bit, I think the edge is a bit to sharp..
A little more metallic look on that corkscrew?
Transparent vase with water in it?
Wine in the bottle and photons all over :)

-Peter

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> The bottle is empty..... how come?
>

... can't remember but meanwhile even the glass is empty.

-Ive

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> That sounds like a program I'd like to get my hands on, give us a call
when
> you're done? :)

sure I will. I didn't get any serios bug report yet so I will do a final
render tomorrow and you can expect a post in the off-topic group on friday -
the time does depend on the render time for the final "splash" version.

> I like your picture, looks great!
Thanx.

> Some things I thought of:
> "Round off" the table a bit, I think the edge is a bit to sharp..
> A little more metallic look on that corkscrew?

I think the look comes from beeing in the shadow only lit by radiosity.

> Transparent vase with water in it?
> Wine in the bottle and photons all over :)

I will look what can be done, but don't have the time for a three day
render.

so long
-Ive

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> The glass is empty???   So it just has a red strip or something then?  To
> tell the truth, sure looks like it's filled to me.
>
Well, 'cause the image was done in the past, now the glass is empty.

-Ive

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Lol, ok - understandable :-)


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3ce295cf$1@news.povray.org...
> > The glass is empty???   So it just has a red strip or something then?
To
> > tell the truth, sure looks like it's filled to me.
> >
> Well, 'cause the image was done in the past, now the glass is empty.
>
> -Ive
>
>
>

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