Hello,
in my spare time I am part of an international community called LDraw.
We enjoy making computer images of Lego models.
http://www.ldraw.org
It was started by an Australian who wished to share his Lego creations
with friends by e-mail. He developed a data-format, a description of
Lego bricks using primitives (studs, boxes, cylinders, discs and
of course triangles) and made a Pascal program for building and
viewing models.
I discovered the community in 1997, was very enthusiastic because
I have always had an interest in both Lego and computer graphics.
I had tried POV a little, mostly with small geometric scenes to enjoy
the amazingly realistic and accurate renderings.
So I made a small converter program from the LDraw data format to POV,
and could offer the community photorealistic images of their models.
I have always been most keen on the technical aspect (I'm a programmer),
so I experimented a while to find some suitable POV settings for colors
and lights and settled for those.
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/hassing/l3p.html

But the other day I got intrigued by this image:
http://www.nikclark.com/BRAZIL/2002/lego1.jpg
It is made by a "Brazil renderer" in 3ds max.
I find it VERY realistic!
It has focal blurring and the lightsetting is phenomenal.
Perhaps radiosity is used?

And then I thought - it must be possible to do that in POV too!
Having seen so many fantastic POV renderings while surfing.
But how ?
I hope you can give me some good advice on how to obtain
a look similar to the Brazil rendering.
Most important, I think, the lightsetting, but perhaps also the blurring.
If you have the time and if you like,
please have a go with my POV scene of the Ferrari:
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/hassing/ks2556.zip

Best regards from Denmark
Lars C. Hassing
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/hassing/index.html

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