http://www.didgeridoings.com/Nature/NatBody.html

Remember when we talked about how some things in nature look 'fake' and when
someone traces that, we complain? Well, here you'll find lots of 'fake'
looking sceneries from Australia. Enjoy.

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Actually only one set is from Australia, most are from the US.
Absolutely fantastic nonetheless.

Margus

TonyB wrote:
> 
> http://www.didgeridoings.com/Nature/NatBody.html
> 
> Remember when we talked about how some things in nature look 'fake' and when
> someone traces that, we complain? Well, here you'll find lots of 'fake'
> looking sceneries from Australia. Enjoy.

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Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Actually only one set is from Australia, most are from the US.
> Absolutely fantastic nonetheless.
> 
> Margus

I have seen most of those personally and can attest to their magnificence.
It's like being in a different world when visiting those rock canyons and
the Bryce and Zion national parks are indescribable.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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I'm looking at the Slot Canyons images now, thinking I _must_ go there and see
if such a places can really exist! I think this guy is cheating.
It does make wish I could afford to travel more... I have an ever-growing list
of places I wish to visit. Maybe when I'm older, a millionaire with too much
time on his hands. :/

Margus

Ken wrote:
> 
> I have seen most of those personally and can attest to their magnificence.
> It's like being in a different world when visiting those rock canyons and
> the Bryce and Zion national parks are indescribable.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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TonyB spoke of photographs that look fake.  I think some photorealistic raytracing
looks fake. I think that it raytracing, there are also different degrees of
photorealism.

There is
"Wow, such excellent raytracing that looks just like a photo!!! :-) :-) :-)  "
and then there is
"Wow, this looks like a window to a real place!"


For an example of the latter, see:
http://rafale.worldnet.net/~mda/gallery5.htm
Can you imagine how this artist's photorealism would have to be altered to be in
tune with most winning IRTC entries?



Margus Ramst wrote:

> I'm looking at the Slot Canyons images now, thinking I _must_ go there and see
> if such a places can really exist! I think this guy is cheating.
> It does make wish I could afford to travel more... I have an ever-growing list
> of places I wish to visit. Maybe when I'm older, a millionaire with too much
> time on his hands. :/
>
> Margus
>
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > I have seen most of those personally and can attest to their magnificence.
> > It's like being in a different world when visiting those rock canyons and
> > the Bryce and Zion national parks are indescribable.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Tyler -  1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Thank goodness that wasn't Coyote Butts instead on that web page.
I see the point being made.  I could find something wrong with the lighting
or texturing in any one of those photos if I wanted to.
Having been to Badlands South Dakota USA (among many other places) it looks
very fractal-like in the sense you can't figure scale easily.  Up close
looks same as distant, the overall pattern seems to repeat and it's all a
generalized brown color.
Travelling could never be underrated in my opinion when it comes to getting
first hand visualization, photography is a mere fantasy by comparison.
Although that's what can be so good about pictures, and rendering computer
generated images, because the artists touch is involved. By artist I don't
mean professional, just a human manipulation of what exists or is created by
anyone can be art (for lack of a better word).

Bob

Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
news:381D9636.89573B9C@my-dejanews.com...
> TonyB spoke of photographs that look fake.  I think some photorealistic
raytracing
> looks fake. I think that it raytracing, there are also different degrees
of
> photorealism.
>
> There is
> "Wow, such excellent raytracing that looks just like a photo!!! :-) :-)
:-)  "
> and then there is
> "Wow, this looks like a window to a real place!"
>
>
> For an example of the latter, see:
> http://rafale.worldnet.net/~mda/gallery5.htm
> Can you imagine how this artist's photorealism would have to be altered to
be in
> tune with most winning IRTC entries?
>
>
>
> Margus Ramst wrote:
>
> > I'm looking at the Slot Canyons images now, thinking I _must_ go there
and see
> > if such a places can really exist! I think this guy is cheating.
> > It does make wish I could afford to travel more... I have an
ever-growing list
> > of places I wish to visit. Maybe when I'm older, a millionaire with too
much
> > time on his hands. :/
> >
> > Margus
> >
> > Ken wrote:
> > >
> > > I have seen most of those personally and can attest to their
magnificence.
> > > It's like being in a different world when visiting those rock canyons
and
> > > the Bryce and Zion national parks are indescribable.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Tyler -  1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing
Links:
> > > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
http://www.povray.org/links/
>
>
>

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Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
: There is
: "Wow, such excellent raytracing that looks just like a photo!!! :-) :-) :-)  "
: and then there is
: "Wow, this looks like a window to a real place!"

  "This raytracing looks exactly like a real place which looks like a fake
when taken a photograph."

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This is fantastic stuff! As Margus mentioned I wish
I could travel more to see these places myself.
-- 
Phil
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Exactly my point. If you were to render something like this, nobody would
believe it without proof like these pictures. =)

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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:07:36 -0500, "TonyB"
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

>http://www.didgeridoings.com/Nature/NatBody.html
>
>Remember when we talked about how some things in nature look 'fake' and when
>someone traces that, we complain? Well, here you'll find lots of 'fake'
>looking sceneries from Australia. Enjoy.

I am taking the liberty to quote a few paragraphs from a book called
"Where Eagles Dare" by Alistair McLean. He is one of my favourite
authors not so much because of the action and thrill in his books but
mainly because of his unbelieveable (to me at least) mastery of the
English language. The exerpt I am quoting is the first and last
paragraph of a two-page description. I hope I am this post is not
off-topic in this thread.

"What lay below them was something out of a fairy tale, an impossibly
beautiful scene from an impossibly beautiful fairy tale, a fairy tale
set aeons back in never-never land of the age of dreams, a kindlier
land, a nobler land than man has ever known since first he had set his
hand against his brother. A land that never was, Smith thought, a land
that never lost; but there it lay before them, the golden land that
never was, the home of that most dreaded organisation in the entire
world, the German Gestapo. The impeccable incongruity of it all, Smith
reflected, passed all belief.

...

"Below the soaring northern ramparts of the castle the valley fell
away steeply to the Blau See, beautiful pine-fringed jewel of a lake
of the deepest and most sparkling blue, a colour which with the green
of the pines, the white dazzle of the snow and the brilliant, lighter
blue of the sky above formed a combination of breath-taking
loveliness. Impossibly lovely, Smith thought, a completely faitful
colour reproduction of the scene would have had everybody shouting
'fake'."


Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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