I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
exercise in making the wax material.
CGSphere link: http://www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/?submission_id=3240

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"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
> exercise in making the wax material.
> CGSphere link: http://www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/?submission_id=3240

A very, very beautiful object! Excellent concept, design and realization.
Congrats.

    Bruno

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Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
> exercise in making the wax material.
> CGSphere link: http://www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/?submission_id=3240
> 
> 
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> 
Looks to me like a bit of an exercise in a lot of things.  That flame 
alone is masterful. Demonstrates why people sit and stare at flames. THe 
simple beauty of the color and form, of the mechanism itself.  The 
construction and texturing of each element in the scene bears well the 
detailed scrutiny it invites.  The anti-aliasing alone and clean 
moudlation of the shadows is remarkable.  Beautiful concept, beautiful 
execution.  Bravo.

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> > I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
> > exercise in making the wax material.
> > CGSphere link: http://www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/?submission_id=3240
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> Looks to me like a bit of an exercise in a lot of things.  That flame
> alone is masterful. Demonstrates why people sit and stare at flames. THe
> simple beauty of the color and form, of the mechanism itself.  The
> construction and texturing of each element in the scene bears well the
> detailed scrutiny it invites.  The anti-aliasing alone and clean
> moudlation of the shadows is remarkable.  Beautiful concept, beautiful
> execution.  Bravo.

Thanks.  Actually the flame was one I developed a few years ago (after hours
of staring at flames and pictures of flames trying to get the colours and
shapes right)

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Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
> exercise in making the wax material.

Sweeeeeet!

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     His kernel fu is strong.
     He studied at the Shao Linux Temple.

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Probably the best flame I've seen done in POV. I also love the overall
lighting and the choice of colours. The wax looks a bit too liquid to me
(I suppose the upper part is meant to be liquid, but the lower part
looks so, too). I'm not sure what's the cause, probably it could be a
bit darker.


Keep up the good work!
Florian

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Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> Probably the best flame I've seen done in POV. I also love the overall
> lighting and the choice of colours. The wax looks a bit too liquid to me
> (I suppose the upper part is meant to be liquid, but the lower part
> looks so, too). I'm not sure what's the cause, probably it could be a
> bit darker.
>
>
> Keep up the good work!
> Florian

Thanks for the comments.  If anyone is interested, I can post the flame for
fiddling with (I may have already done so a while back, can't really
recall)

The wax has a relatively uniform density (scattering media).  I have fresnel
reflection set for it and it has a smooth surface which is tending to make
it look liquidy at the top I think.  I suppose I could've either added some
roughness to the top, or maybe varied the media density to coincide with a
liquid/solid transition.

-tgq

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"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've finally put another CGSphere submission together.  Was a bit of an
> exercise in making the wax material.
> CGSphere link: http://www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/?submission_id=3240

Another great CGSphere image, the wax is excellent and the flame looks very
realistic. Also, I like the way you have given a slight glow to the end of
the wick it is something I would not have thought of but makes the effect
very realistic.

Sean

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Hi,

a really beautiful picture, very impressive.

Just a minor question: what's the meaning of that chinese character ??
It seems not to belong to the roughly 2000 most important kanji in my
dictionary :-)

Thank you
Karl

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"Karl Anders" <kar### [at] webde> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a really beautiful picture, very impressive.
>
> Just a minor question: what's the meaning of that chinese character ??
> It seems not to belong to the roughly 2000 most important kanji in my
> dictionary :-)
>
> Thank you
> Karl

Thanks.

Actually, by this time I had forgotten what it meant (I started this one
maybe a couple months ago).  Luckily the image map I used for it still had
the name: "prosperity"

-tgq

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