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"Samuel B." <stb### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> "Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > I'm about done with this scene, but before I do the final high-quality render I
> > thought I'd post this version to see if there are any suggestions. This took
> > about 10 hours to render; when I jack up the anti-aliasing and the radiosity
> > settings it will take 2-4x that, so I'm planning to start it before leaving for
> > the Thanksgiving holidays.
> >
> > Nothing terribly new here in terms of techniques. I used some procedures I had
> > previously played with for stained glass windows to do the nativity set and the
> > "Merry Christmas" wall hanging. A bunch of the models are reused from earlier
> > renders, but updated with the latest techniques.
> >
> > Enjoy, comment soon, and I'll post the final render next week.
> >
> > -- Chris R.
>
> Looks nice, but that peace bulb is scarily close to the edge...
>
> Sam
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"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> "Samuel B." <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > "Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > > I'm about done with this scene, but before I do the final high-quality
render[...]
> >
> > Looks nice, but that peace bulb is scarily close to the edge...
> >
> > Sam
Was there supposed to be a comment here? I ask because I tried to send a reply
/before/ that one, but it never showed up. It is possible I left the window
before sending it fully. (But I'm getting kind of paranoid...)
Sam
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On 2023-11-25 20:50 (-4), Samuel B. wrote:
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> Was there supposed to be a comment here? I ask because I tried to send a reply
> /before/ that one, but it never showed up. It is possible I left the window
> before sending it fully. (But I'm getting kind of paranoid...)
The Web interface software is still choking on non-ASCII characters.
Chris wrote "Creative tension... <winky face>," but the Web interface
deleted the line because of the non-ASCII ellipsis, and perhaps the
winky face. The winky face showed in my newsreader as HTML entity code,
which I had to investigate to learn that it was a winky face.
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Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2023-11-25 20:50 (-4), Samuel B. wrote:
> >
> > Was there supposed to be a comment here? I ask because I tried to send a reply
> > /before/ that one, but it never showed up. It is possible I left the window
> > before sending it fully. (But I'm getting kind of paranoid...)
>
> The Web interface software is still choking on non-ASCII characters.
> Chris wrote "Creative tension... <winky face>," but the Web interface
> deleted the line because of the non-ASCII ellipsis, and perhaps the
> winky face. The winky face showed in my newsreader as HTML entity code,
> which I had to investigate to learn that it was a winky face.
Thanks Ricky, that makes sense. (I've tried emojis on the web interface before
and nothing showed up.) I've not attempted to use a newsreader since Thunderbird
on Windows 8... I couldn't get it configured properly, so I gave up. Maybe I
should try again.
Sam
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Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2023-11-25 20:50 (-4), Samuel B. wrote:
> >
> > Was there supposed to be a comment here? I ask because I tried to send a reply
> > /before/ that one, but it never showed up. It is possible I left the window
> > before sending it fully. (But I'm getting kind of paranoid...)
>
> The Web interface software is still choking on non-ASCII characters.
> Chris wrote "Creative tension... <winky face>," but the Web interface
> deleted the line because of the non-ASCII ellipsis, and perhaps the
> winky face. The winky face showed in my newsreader as HTML entity code,
> which I had to investigate to learn that it was a winky face.
Good to remember. I had been away and was using my iPad to reply. One of my
earlier replies (about the isosurface for the nativity set), was missing the
first line, and the second about with the emoji was only a single line anyway,
so I thought maybe the browser on the iPad was truncating the form data for the
posting on the web interface.
-- Chris R.
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"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> I'm about done with this scene, but before I do the final high-quality render I
> thought I'd post this version to see if there are any suggestions. This took
> about 10 hours to render; when I jack up the anti-aliasing and the radiosity
> settings it will take 2-4x that, so I'm planning to start it before leaving for
> the Thanksgiving holidays.
>
> Nothing terribly new here in terms of techniques. I used some procedures I had
> previously played with for stained glass windows to do the nativity set and the
> "Merry Christmas" wall hanging. A bunch of the models are reused from earlier
> renders, but updated with the latest techniques.
>
> Enjoy, comment soon, and I'll post the final render next week.
>
> -- Chris R.
Here is a more final rendering, although the string of lights hanging on the bar
did not come out as I expected them to, so I'll probably end up doing some more
experiments to get them right and then render again. I may do a rendering with
focal blur too, but given that this took almost 4 days without any blur, that
may have to wait until I'm away from my computer for at least a week.
-- Chris R.
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"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Nice, I too think the bauble with Peace on it looks a bit flat/too matte a
> finish.
>
> The other two on the table look great though and the tree is really good.
>
> The other point I would add is the lights on the fireplace, they are too dull
> and don't appear to be emitting any light onto the surface right next to them. I
> would try either a dim light source for each (will slow things down) or union
> each fairy light with a sphere with emitting media. Something like below:
>
> sphere{ 0,1
> pigment { rgbt 1 } hollow
> interior
> { media
> {
> emission colour rgb <1,0.8, 0.6> samples 20,100
> density
> { spherical turbulence 0.05 omega 0.7 density_map
> {
> [0.0 rgb <0, 0, 0> ]
> [0.8 rgb <0.2, 0.2, .1>]
> [1 rgb <1.5, 1.2 0.8> ]
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> The above media is incredibly quick to render so shouldn't slow things down.
>
> Sean
In the rendered image, I had been using a finish emission on the actual glass
bulb, rather than creating a hollow sphere with an emitting media. I switched
that out and recreated the bulb to separate the containing glass ball from the
light using media, and after fixing my radiosity settings to take media into
account, it looks much better. Thanks for the suggestion...
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"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> "Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > I'm about done with this scene, but before I do the final high-quality render I
> > thought I'd post this version to see if there are any suggestions. This took
> > about 10 hours to render; when I jack up the anti-aliasing and the radiosity
> > settings it will take 2-4x that, so I'm planning to start it before leaving for
> > the Thanksgiving holidays.
> >
> > Nothing terribly new here in terms of techniques. I used some procedures I had
> > previously played with for stained glass windows to do the nativity set and the
> > "Merry Christmas" wall hanging. A bunch of the models are reused from earlier
> > renders, but updated with the latest techniques.
> >
> > Enjoy, comment soon, and I'll post the final render next week.
> >
> > -- Chris R.
>
> Here is a more final rendering, although the string of lights hanging on the bar
> did not come out as I expected them to, so I'll probably end up doing some more
> experiments to get them right and then render again. I may do a rendering with
> focal blur too, but given that this took almost 4 days without any blur, that
> may have to wait until I'm away from my computer for at least a week.
>
> -- Chris R.
Very nice, the peace bauble looks much better now!
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"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> "s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> > Nice, I too think the bauble with Peace on it looks a bit flat/too matte a
> > finish.
> >
> > The other two on the table look great though and the tree is really good.
> >
> > The other point I would add is the lights on the fireplace, they are too dull
> > and don't appear to be emitting any light onto the surface right next to them. I
> > would try either a dim light source for each (will slow things down) or union
> > each fairy light with a sphere with emitting media. Something like below:
> >
> > sphere{ 0,1
> > pigment { rgbt 1 } hollow
> > interior
> > { media
> > {
> > emission colour rgb <1,0.8, 0.6> samples 20,100
> > density
> > { spherical turbulence 0.05 omega 0.7 density_map
> > {
> > [0.0 rgb <0, 0, 0> ]
> > [0.8 rgb <0.2, 0.2, .1>]
> > [1 rgb <1.5, 1.2 0.8> ]
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > The above media is incredibly quick to render so shouldn't slow things down.
> >
> > Sean
>
> In the rendered image, I had been using a finish emission on the actual glass
> bulb, rather than creating a hollow sphere with an emitting media. I switched
> that out and recreated the bulb to separate the containing glass ball from the
> light using media, and after fixing my radiosity settings to take media into
> account, it looks much better. Thanks for the suggestion...
That look's great, nice job on those lights.
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"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
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> In the rendered image, I had been using a finish emission on the actual glass
> bulb, rather than creating a hollow sphere with an emitting media. I switched
> that out and recreated the bulb to separate the containing glass ball from the
> light using media, and after fixing my radiosity settings to take media into
> account, it looks much better. Thanks for the suggestion...
Indeed, this does look much better, glad it helped.
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