POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Nature beyond : Re: Nature beyond Server Time
19 Apr 2024 21:10:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Nature beyond  
From: BayashiPascal
Date: 6 Jun 2020 05:55:01
Message: <web.5edb66f5a10711b3bf64454a0@news.povray.org>
A remote and peaceful corner for sure :-)
I thought some water falling off from the whales' tail would improve realism.


Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> It has been some time since I last posted an image. Here is my latest,
> showing a remote corner on Earth, far from humanity.
>
> The landscape was modelled with the latest version of World Machine,
> including the landscape map generated by the program. This last is nice
> from a distance; close up it appears too coarse but can be used then as
> a basis for further texture reworking.
>
> As a sea, I used Jaime Vives Piqueres' sea macros
> (http://www.ignorancia.org/index.php/galleries/old-images/sea-buoy/), to
> which I added the foam, based on work by Marc Jacquier
> (http://www.povcomp.com/entries/174.php) and Tekno Frannansa (aka Tek).
> It is not yet entirely satisfying and needs more work.
>
> The clouds are based on code my Mick Hazelgrove and Juha Leppälä. The
> cloud cover is quite thick: 1000 POV-units.
>
> The frolicking sperm whales were found somewhere on the net.
>
> The sea gulls are models by Mick Hazelgrove (see: The Preacher:
> http://hof.povray.org/4b.html)
>
> The sky and landscape rendered quite fast, less than 15 minutes. The sea
> however took much longer: about a dozen hours more or less. I did that
> in several, successive, sessions.
>
> --
> Thomas


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