Anthony D'Agostino wrote:
> I haven't used povray since 1998. Today, in 2020, I started again.
> Besides I never got a chance to use radiosity until now.
...

A great image, having been away for so long you should also look at the HDR
feature which would add even more realism to this image.

Sean

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Thanks. You mean using an HDR as a light source? I've thought of it but 
never tried. I might use that feature for a future render, since this 
one was only a test.


On 2/23/20 5:19 AM, s.day wrote:
> Anthony D'Agostino wrote:
>> I haven't used povray since 1998. Today, in 2020, I started again.
>> Besides I never got a chance to use radiosity until now.
> ...
> 
> A great image, having been away for so long you should also look at the HDR
> feature which would add even more realism to this image.
> 
> Sean
>

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Hi Anthony,

not only that your scene rendered fast as you mentioned, but it also looks very
nice. When looking at it, the colors have different emotional responses.
Interesting. I really like your beautiful scene.

Can you do a large version of it? The only change I would want it to remove
these little star-cutouts, but that is just me. Others mighr like them a lot. I
want to use your scene on my 16:9 desktop as background.

I wonder of the scene would look if all these colored golf balls would be made
from glass and not opaque plastic, wood or ivory. Wanna give a try?

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Sven,

Thanks for the kind words.

Well, it doesn't render as fast when doing a larger version because all 
the radiosity artifacts appear. So I messed around with the settings for 
a while and got better results.

I tried different materials like glass and chrome but they just don't 
look good.

Here's a 1920x1080 version. I left the stars alone because that was part 
of the original design for the stands.

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