More simple.  Just keeping my hand in. Let the raytracer do the work. 
Yes I'll probably try photons.

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Precious....
memory to those magnificent paintings of the 17th century. Now you have to 
paint the rest, fruits, flowers, insects and so on. And perhaps a skull...

Beautiful






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> More simple.  Just keeping my hand in. Let the raytracer do the work.
> Yes I'll probably try photons.
>


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Remy Closset wrote:
> Precious....
> memory to those magnificent paintings of the 17th century. Now you have to 
> paint the rest, fruits, flowers, insects and so on. And perhaps a skull...
> 
> Beautiful
> 
Thanks Remy.  Yes the goblet loosely resembles one that appears in 
various paintings by Flegel.  I like Flegel because his paintings 
generally have arrangements of distinct objects that would be relatively 
easy to model.  Also he often uses the plate of fish theme which 
interests me, and I have been working on from time to time. (You can 
keep a secret, right? I am also intigued by Nautilaus Shell pictures and 
pictures including dead fowl with tromp l'oeil depictions of feathers.)

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
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> More simple.  Just keeping my hand in. Let the raytracer do the work.
> Yes I'll probably try photons.


   Please do. Very nice Jim!


      ~Steve~

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
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> Remy Closset wrote:
> > Precious....
> > memory to those magnificent paintings of the 17th century. Now you have
to
> > paint the rest, fruits, flowers, insects and so on. And perhaps a
skull...
> >
> > Beautiful
> >
> Thanks Remy.  Yes the goblet loosely resembles one that appears in
> various paintings by Flegel.  I like Flegel because his paintings
> generally have arrangements of distinct objects that would be relatively
> easy to model.  Also he often uses the plate of fish theme which
> interests me, and I have been working on from time to time. (You can
> keep a secret, right? I am also intigued by Nautilaus Shell pictures and
> pictures including dead fowl with tromp l'oeil depictions of feathers.)



This is very well done indeed. Time indeed to revisit the old masters...

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
> news:439482ea$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Remy Closset wrote:
>>
>>>Precious....
>>>memory to those magnificent paintings of the 17th century. Now you have
> 
> to
> 
>>>paint the rest, fruits, flowers, insects and so on. And perhaps a
> 
> skull...
> 
>>>Beautiful
>>>
>>
>>Thanks Remy.  Yes the goblet loosely resembles one that appears in
>>various paintings by Flegel.  I like Flegel because his paintings
>>generally have arrangements of distinct objects that would be relatively
>>easy to model.  Also he often uses the plate of fish theme which
>>interests me, and I have been working on from time to time. (You can
>>keep a secret, right? I am also intigued by Nautilaus Shell pictures and
>>pictures including dead fowl with tromp l'oeil depictions of feathers.)
> 
> 
> 

> This is very well done indeed. Time indeed to revisit the old masters...
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
Thanks Thomas,

Again, from a technical pov there is little here novel or worthy of 
mention: lathe, glass texture, couple of spots.  It is more about using 
simple means to get an emotive image. That is to say, letting the image 
drive the use of effects rather than trying to model to some standard of 
realism.  The monochrome color, flat field, and object placement is 
similar to how I used to paint.  In fact I see this whole image as 
"painterly".  The image is satisfying for me in ways I can't explain or 
analyse.  Probably I am just easy to amuse.

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
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> >
> Thanks Thomas,
>
> Again, from a technical pov there is little here novel or worthy of
> mention: lathe, glass texture, couple of spots.  It is more about using
> simple means to get an emotive image. That is to say, letting the image
> drive the use of effects rather than trying to model to some standard of
> realism.  The monochrome color, flat field, and object placement is
> similar to how I used to paint.  In fact I see this whole image as
> "painterly".  The image is satisfying for me in ways I can't explain or
> analyse.  Probably I am just easy to amuse.


Forgive my thick braincase :-)
What I indeed had forgotten to mention (impulsively taken along by another
notion) was that the scene is complete by itself. Its simplicity appeals to
me very much. It is a thing I often want to do, but never really achieve
because complexity encroaches to fast on what I am doing. Again, well done!

Thomas

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There is more to understand about photons but this is a start...

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