> Nope! It is spelt "veins".

Good to know, thanks.

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Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:

>>I FOUND IT!!!!
>>
>>It was in p.b.a, titled "more sub-surface scattering" on 5.12.2003 by Tek.
>>Very beautiful interior.
> 
> 
> Yay, that's it! Thanks! I should have remembered that it had been an
> animation, I'd probably have found it myself then...

Yeah, right: you just talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

;------))))

Severi S.

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"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@) nolights.de> wrote in message
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> > I'm sorry -- I'm new to this board and don't know all the people yet.
> Well,
> > it gave me an excuse to put together a quick scene anyway :-)_
>
> Hey, no problem. Shows off that you're a decent guy. :-)

:-) Hehe, I'm thinking there are some people who aren't going agree with you
on that one :-)

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> :-) Hehe, I'm thinking there are some people who aren't going agree with
you
> on that one :-)

What would life be without controversy? Boring!

But we're getting off-topic here...

Regards,
Tim

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"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@) nolights.de> wrote in message
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> > :-) Hehe, I'm thinking there are some people who aren't going agree with
> you
> > on that one :-)
>
> What would life be without controversy? Boring!

heheh -- true

> But we're getting off-topic here...

To jump back on topic, I saw that animation you were looking for dah-ham!!!
It still baffles me how much this open-source renderer can do. The
developers are truly talented individuals.

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"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in
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> It still baffles me how much this open-source renderer can
> do. 

FYI, POV-Ray is not open-source.  http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html


> The developers are truly talented individuals.
> 
> 

Yup



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"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] imporg> wrote in message
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> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in
> news:40251a84$1@news.povray.org:
>
> > It still baffles me how much this open-source renderer can
> > do.
>
> FYI, POV-Ray is not open-source.  http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html

Ah, I read what you meant in the license and I see where the
misunderstanding is. When I say open-source, I mean that the source is
included with the product so that, if there are bugs, you can fix them
yourself instead of having to rely on the creators to. I also mean that many
people are working on it, not just one closed company headed by some
marketting guy and a middle manager who got to his job because he couldn't
code :-). Some people are going to confuse that with "free to go and make
money off of and take credit for", or something, which isn't in the spirit
of copyright and in that environment. Nobody would give release their code
because they wouldn't be acknowledged for their hard work (and writing
software is /hard/, which is why so few people can do it decently). The GNU
public license addresses this issue really well too (just like the POV-Ray
license).

> > The developers are truly talented individuals.
>
> Yup

*Raises beer glass, tink, swig* Here here.

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"Severi Salminen" <sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi> wrote in message
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> It was in p.b.a, titled "more sub-surface scattering" on 5.12.2003
by Tek.
> Very beautiful interior.

    Near as damn it perfect. That's agate alright.
(Must.....get.....broad....ba...nd....for......p.b.a.....)  ;)

      Nice one Tek.

     > Severi "Sherlock" Salminen

        :)

       ~Steve~

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:16:04 +0100, "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@)
nolights.de> wrote:

>Aside of that, does anyone have experience with scripting/modelling some
>media-driven subsurface effects, especially in the direction of marble?

The only advice I can give with SSS (advice no one seems to take which
I find odd since I've had great success with it) is to give the
container object an opaque interior_texture so as to avoid the fuzzy
edges and unrealistic shadows which would otherwise require a very
dense media.

Apply the same pattern that you use for the media density as a pigment
to the interior_texture, give it a low ambient, high diffuse, and
double_illuminate if possible (so that the shadows of the media are
projected on the outside surface). Radiosity also works with this
approach but is IMHO overkill if not otherwise needed for the scene.

For the finish use fresnel reflection and use a very high ior (5, 10
or more). A high brilliance, although unrealistic, brings out the
spherical shape very well, again IMHO. Other useful stuff includes a
soft phong + tight specular.

As of marble, I suggest you start with agate instead of marble for the
media density. For the texture it might be worth to try a texture map
where the veins are distinctively less reflective (in terms of
highlights, too) than the white areas.

Scratches and other imperfections are optional. It will be very cool
if you hard-code the date you release the source and make the surface
more worn with every render (i.e. based on current date/time -
date/time it was released). Just kidding :)

My fingers are itching to beat you to it :) but both this poor little
machine and myself have too much to do at the moment :(


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> >Aside of that, does anyone have experience with scripting/modelling some
> >media-driven subsurface effects, especially in the direction of marble?
>
> The only advice I can give with SSS (advice no one seems to take which
> I find odd since I've had great success with it) is to give the
> container object an opaque interior_texture so as to avoid the fuzzy
> edges and unrealistic shadows which would otherwise require a very
> dense media.
SNIP some more interesting ideas

Thanks for all the ideas! To be honest, I hadn't spent much thought on using
interior_texture, instead I went for ultra-realism: make the media dense
enough so that it looks real and I still get the shadows... But the approach
you mention seems to be very good and with proper tweaking could be useful,
though I'm not sure how well interior_texture works with multiple
overlapping objects etc...

At the least, I'll keep it in mind. For now, I'm working on my short movie
again, and have just coded a new particle System with Object Interaction. So
the Go-Game is on a hold for now...

Regards,
Tim

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