POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Realism Test : Re: Realism Test Server Time
4 Oct 2024 07:11:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Realism Test  
From: Chris Maryan
Date: 10 Apr 1999 14:14:23
Message: <370F87D6.FE72B4E8@geocities.com>
Camera settings are not where realism fails in most images, neither is
radiosity or lighting. I have followed almost every image posted here
and in the IRTC and the one thing that always bothers me is textures. If
you want to improve realism, consider spending time on getting the
phong/specular highlights, the diffuse and ambient settings right. For
example, in your image, you might consider playing around with the
settings to improve the depth shown by the shading, your spheres look
rather flat. This would probably be best remedied by decreasing the
ambient. Also consider increasing the brightness of the highlights in
your textures. Everything else falls into place naturally once you have
the textures looking right. What you have is an excellent start, keep up
the good work.

Charles Krause wrote:
> 
> Just tinkering with photo-realism, wanted to see what people thought as to
> what could be improved.
> 
> This image is NOT that exciting for content though :) I'm looking at the
> light/camera settings for maximum realism.
> 
> This image uses focal blur of 0.3, an area light, and standard level 5
> radiosity settings.
> 
> And this image took 6.5 hours for my P133 :(
> 
>  [Image]

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