hi there,

some improvements have been made:

- two area lights instead of my pathetic attemps with 30 individual
light_source's
- sheet of paper has been added
- texture of wood has been rotated by 5 degrees

things that need work:

- the floor tiles are to small
- the white box needs a "function"
- render it with focal blur
- turbulence in the wood (need to check the manual for that :-))


comments are appreciated as always.

render time: 29 minutes on a 500 mhz CPU
JWV

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Can you add some thickness to the paper? I think it needs at least a teeny
bit of shadow to suggest that it is has some relationship with the floor.
Can't put my finger on it exactly.

-Peter

JWV wrote:
>hi there,
>
>some improvements have been made:
>
>- two area lights instead of my pathetic attemps with 30 individual
>light_source's
>- sheet of paper has been added
>- texture of wood has been rotated by 5 degrees
>
>things that need work:
>
>- the floor tiles are to small
>- the white box needs a "function"
>- render it with focal blur
>- turbulence in the wood (need to check the manual for that :-))
>
>
>comments are appreciated as always.
>
>render time: 29 minutes on a 500 mhz CPU
>JWV
>

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> Can you add some thickness to the paper? I think it needs at least a teeny
> bit of shadow to suggest that it is has some relationship with the floor.
> Can't put my finger on it exactly.


i see what you mean, but maybe the effect will be better if i wrinkle the
paper a bit, but this will mean i need to make an HF, or mesh. Both of these
techniques are very unfamilliar to me, so that will take a while.

JWV
"pmccombs" <pmc### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Can you add some thickness to the paper? I think it needs at least a teeny
> bit of shadow to suggest that it is has some relationship with the floor.
> Can't put my finger on it exactly.
>
> -Peter
>
> JWV wrote:
> >hi there,
> >
> >some improvements have been made:
> >
> >- two area lights instead of my pathetic attemps with 30 individual
> >light_source's
> >- sheet of paper has been added
> >- texture of wood has been rotated by 5 degrees
> >
> >things that need work:
> >
> >- the floor tiles are to small
> >- the white box needs a "function"
> >- render it with focal blur
> >- turbulence in the wood (need to check the manual for that :-))
> >
> >
> >comments are appreciated as always.
> >
> >render time: 29 minutes on a 500 mhz CPU
> >JWV
> >
>
>

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that already looks a lot better :)

JWV <jwv|at|planet.nl> wrote in message news:3ef2b9ec@news.povray.org...
> hi there,
>
> some improvements have been made:
>
> - two area lights instead of my pathetic attemps with 30 individual
> light_source's
> - sheet of paper has been added
> - texture of wood has been rotated by 5 degrees
>
> things that need work:
>
> - the floor tiles are to small
> - the white box needs a "function"
> - render it with focal blur
> - turbulence in the wood (need to check the manual for that :-))
>
>
> comments are appreciated as always.
>
> render time: 29 minutes on a 500 mhz CPU
> JWV
>
>
>
>
>

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> that already looks a lot better :)

thanks :-)
"Ross Litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
news:3ef32a08@news.povray.org...
> that already looks a lot better :)
>
> JWV <jwv|at|planet.nl> wrote in message news:3ef2b9ec@news.povray.org...
> > hi there,
> >
> > some improvements have been made:
> >
> > - two area lights instead of my pathetic attemps with 30 individual
> > light_source's
> > - sheet of paper has been added
> > - texture of wood has been rotated by 5 degrees
> >
> > things that need work:
> >
> > - the floor tiles are to small
> > - the white box needs a "function"
> > - render it with focal blur
> > - turbulence in the wood (need to check the manual for that :-))
> >
> >
> > comments are appreciated as always.
> >
> > render time: 29 minutes on a 500 mhz CPU
> > JWV
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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It's looking good! :)

FWIW, I would rotate the wood pattern a few degrees around the axis of the
sharpener (the same axis a pencil would align with) to fix the sides up
with
a proper grain, and add a little (or little more...) turbulence... and maybe
a little shine, since they'd probably be polyurethaned or otherwise
finished.

But maybe that's just me...

--Chris

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