Hello everyone,

This image was rendered in four passes. I first rendered a star field. I 
then rendered the nebula itself, plus a few larger stars thrown in for 
good measure. This was rendered over the first star field. The third 
render gave the image an appearance of having film grain. The last 
render added the glare effect. It was all made in POV-Ray, except for 
the black border on either side which was added in IrfanView between 
steps 3 & 4.

I'll probably add some sort of space scene to it later, who knows.

I hope you enjoy it!

Sam

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"stbenge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Hello everyone,
>
> This image was rendered in four passes. I first rendered a star field. I
> then rendered the nebula itself, plus a few larger stars thrown in for
> good measure. This was rendered over the first star field. The third
> render gave the image an appearance of having film grain. The last
> render added the glare effect. It was all made in POV-Ray, except for
> the black border on either side which was added in IrfanView between
> steps 3 & 4.
>
> I'll probably add some sort of space scene to it later, who knows.
>
> I hope you enjoy it!
>

It certainly reminds one of some Hubble photographs. Very well done, Sam!

This needs a General Products Hull #3 in the foreground  :-)

Thomas

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It seems a scanned image.

As usual: WOW!

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> Hello everyone,
>
> This image was rendered in four passes. I first rendered a star field. I
> then rendered the nebula itself, plus a few larger stars thrown in for
> good measure. This was rendered over the first star field. The third
> render gave the image an appearance of having film grain. The last
> render added the glare effect. It was all made in POV-Ray, except for
> the black border on either side which was added in IrfanView between
> steps 3 & 4.
>
> I'll probably add some sort of space scene to it later, who knows.
>
> I hope you enjoy it!
>
> Sam

Congrats to you Sam. Well done!

     Bruno

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
> It certainly reminds one of some Hubble photographs. Very well done, Sam!

Thanks! I intended for it to look like the Hubble photos. In fact, I 
used about five for reference :)

> This needs a General Products Hull #3 in the foreground  :-)

I don't know what that is, but I had originally planned to add some soft 
of space craft in the foreground.

Sam

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Carlo C. wrote:
> It seems a scanned image.
> 
> As usual: WOW!
> 
Thank you :)

Sam

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Bruno Cabasson wrote:
> Congrats to you Sam. Well done!

Thank you, Bruno. I'm hoping the new HDR version of my luminous bloom 
code will make the stars more realistic. I wasn't completely happy with 
how they turned out in this image :(

Sam

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"stbenge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>
>> This needs a General Products Hull #3 in the foreground  :-)
>
> I don't know what that is, but I had originally planned to add some soft 
> of space craft in the foreground.
>

Sorry, Sam. That's a spacecraft type commonly referred to in the Known Space 
cycle of stories by Larry Niven. http://www.larryniven.org/
GP Hulls are generally transparant too.

Thomas

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Impressive!
Care to elaborate on how you did the 3rd step? media? procedurals? code? :)
Regards Roman

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Extremely well-done.  It has such an organic, 'art-sy' feel to it that it would,
IMO, fool most people into thinking it was a photo, or airbrushed
artwork--anything but CGI.

Ken W.

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