"Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> Wanting to learn from nice published materials, I set up a test file with
> some equally nice povray objects containing CSG, mesh, blob, isosurface,
> heightfield, julia, sphere sweep and superellipsoid objects to get sharp and
> round edges, large flat areas and tiny details.
>
> The materials are from everywhere (Newsgroups, IRTC, web and some own) and
> resemble e.g. metals, varnishes, stones, ceramics, natural, technical and fun
> materials. Beside "solid" materials I collected different SSLT, media effects or
> proximity patterns.
>
> I took care to cite the source whenever possible, but I took freedom in changing
> the material including changed colors, finishes or maps, adding normals or
> changed patterns (e.g. gradient, planar or wood).
>
> I learned very much from this exercise and here I show 20 examples and I think,
> some will be recognized at once.
>
> What do you think, should such a collection be published?
>
>
> Norbert Kern

These look great, my only complaint is after seeing the grass scene at a high
resolution I want to see all of them rendered this way so definitely should be
published in my opinion, could take some time to render them all ;-).

Sean

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