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|  |  | A few years ago I've posted an early attempt within this NG. Here is the 
non-post-processed and almost final version.
You'll find the post-processed and *real* final image on my web-page at
http://www.lilysoft.org/CGI/Blue%20Flower/blueflower.htm
It is accompanied by an trad. German song from the 18th century that 
fits the theme "German Romanticism".
-Ive
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|  |  | Oh my, Caspar David Friedrich!
I love this!
Thomas
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|  |  | >Ive  on date 13/07/2012 9.27 wrote:
> A few years ago I've posted an early attempt within this NG. Here is the
> non-post-processed and almost final version.
> You'll find the post-processed and *real* final image on my web-page at
> http://www.lilysoft.org/CGI/Blue%20Flower/blueflower.htm
> It is accompanied by an trad. German song from the 18th century that
> fits the theme "German Romanticism".
>
> -Ive
>
Wunderschön!
Paolo
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|  |  | Am 13.07.2012 09:27, schrieb Ive:
> A few years ago I've posted an early attempt within this NG. Here is the
> non-post-processed and almost final version.
> You'll find the post-processed and *real* final image on my web-page at
> http://www.lilysoft.org/CGI/Blue%20Flower/blueflower.htm
> It is accompanied by an trad. German song from the 18th century that
> fits the theme "German Romanticism".
Wonderful moody image!
(Best viewed on a well-calibrated display, folks.)
I guess you answered the question before already: Why "the blue flower"?
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|  |  | On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:27:05 +0200, Ive wrote:
> A few years ago I've posted an early attempt within this NG. Here is the
> non-post-processed and almost final version.
This should most certainly be put in the HoF....Amazing work.
Jim
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|  |  | I don't see any blue flower, but I do spot a wet bird... ;)
Exceptional render.  So much foliage and the moody morning fumes in the air...
may I ask for rendertime or should be too afraid?
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|  |  | Am 13.07.2012 15:02, schrieb clipka:
> I guess you answered the question before already: Why "the blue flower"?
Yes ;)
Usually I do hate it to give more than a hint for possible 
interpretations but in this case a bit of explanation might be in place:
"The Blue Flower" - "Die blaue Blume" was coined by the German 18th 
century writer Novalis. The phrase is a metaphor for for search for the 
unreachable, unfulfilled love and desire.
Especially a desire for a "simple world" including an idealized and 
naive picture of nature and the middle ages was characteristic for the 
early German romantic period.
And those ideas (within contemporary esoteric and anti-scientific 
tendencies) have still quite some impact on the cultural and political 
situation in the present while on the other hand already German late 
romantic poets and philosophers (e.g. Heinrich Heine) did use an ironic 
take on this naive world view.
The mixed forest trees seen within the image would have been a common 
view in the 18th century German low mountain range. But nowadays no such 
combination of trees and shrubs does exist anymore in the wild.
You'll need either a time-machine or CGI to do this shot ;)
So there is an image titled "The Blue Flower" that carefully avoids do 
show any blue flower.
-Ive
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|  |  | Am 14.07.2012 04:58, schrieb nemesis:
> I don't see any blue flower, but I do spot a wet bird... ;)
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Se my response to clipka ;)
> Exceptional render.  So much foliage and the moody morning fumes in the air...
> may I ask for rendertime or should be too afraid?
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When does it start to hurt you?
4 days with an i7### [at] 3 5GHz due multiple nested media containers. Well, a 
bit slower than the 35fps I did get with Skyrim  but also a bit more 
moody ;)
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|  |  | Am 13.07.2012 19:00, schrieb Jim Henderson:
> This should most certainly be put in the HoF....Amazing work.
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Thank you Jim!
-Ive
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|  |  | Am 13.07.2012 09:48, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> Oh my, Caspar David Friedrich!
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Yep!
> I love this!
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Thank you Thomas.
-Ive
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