Here finished an image of clouds I've been playing with on and off for a 
while. Three isosurface shapes. One light. Radiosity. Render time almost 
2 hours, i7-920.
Bill P.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Here finished an image of clouds I've been playing with on and off for a
> while. Three isosurface shapes. One light. Radiosity. Render time almost
> 2 hours, i7-920.
> Bill P.

It seems like an abstract wall.

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On 12/28/2013 06:33 PM, Fractracer wrote:
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Here finished an image of clouds I've been playing with on and off for a
>> while. Three isosurface shapes. One light. Radiosity. Render time almost
>> 2 hours, i7-920.
>> Bill P.
>
> It seems like an abstract wall.
>
Yes, it could be. :-) Truth is most of my images end up relatively flat 
because I don't have the skill - and so time - for more complex images.

This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter 
took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually 
failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.

Oddly, what I like about povray as a hobby is I know I'll never master 
the whole of it. No matter, the exploration and learning itself is fun 
and failure can lead to interesting images.

Bill P.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter
> took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually
> failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.
>
It is a big challenge to try this. I wishe you can approach the picture (but
with many works, I don't know if I can do this.) ;(

> Oddly, what I like about povray as a hobby is I know I'll never master
> the whole of it. No matter, the exploration and learning itself is fun
> and failure can lead to interesting images.
>

I agreed, I think that all this technical stuff we have to learn to use Povray
is a good school of patience.

Lionel.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
> This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter
> took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually
> failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.
>
Your photo remind me a picture of MC Escher.

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On 12/30/2013 05:23 AM, Fractracer wrote:
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>
>> This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter
>> took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually
>> failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.
>>
> Your photo remind me a picture of MC Escher.
>
Thanks for passing along this Escher image. It was not one I'd seen and 
it is certainly similar to my daughter's.

Bill P.

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On 29-12-2013 16:11, William F Pokorny wrote:
> On 12/28/2013 06:33 PM, Fractracer wrote:
>> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> Here finished an image of clouds I've been playing with on and off for a
>>> while. Three isosurface shapes. One light. Radiosity. Render time almost
>>> 2 hours, i7-920.
>>> Bill P.
>>
>> It seems like an abstract wall.
>>
> Yes, it could be. :-) Truth is most of my images end up relatively flat
> because I don't have the skill - and so time - for more complex images.
>
> This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter
> took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually
> failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.

A great photo indeed and something that would be interesting to 
reproduce in POV-Ray. I really feel tempted, like when I reproduced that 
b/w photograph for the TC-RTC in 2011: 
http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/imagenewdisplay/stills/index325.html

>
> Oddly, what I like about povray as a hobby is I know I'll never master
> the whole of it. No matter, the exploration and learning itself is fun
> and failure can lead to interesting images.

Absolutely true.

Thomas

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