For real realism, I suggest cylinders with bevelled/rounded edges. Some
scratches (ever so faint) would help too (that goes for all surfaces,
actually - especially the wood could use some roughening).
Even though it is quite possible to create totally polished and smooth
marble, stone and wood cylinders (with razor-sharp edges) and spheres in
reality, the illusion of photo-realism is much more believable if the
objects are *not* that perfect. Mind: They don't have to look weathered.
Just that little tiny touch of imperfection that is hardly visible to the
eye, but gets recognized subconciously.

Is the image supposed to be so dark? It looks a little bit washed-out into
the grey direction.
Also I don't get the bright globe at the top. I guess it is some kind of
lamp? Is it so blurry because of the focal blur or did you use media?

So long,
Johannes.





Charles Krause wrote in message <370f04f6.0@news.povray.org>...
>Just tinkering with photo-realism, wanted to see what people thought as to
>what could be improved.
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>This image is NOT that exciting for content though :) I'm looking at the
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>This image uses focal blur of 0.3, an area light, and standard level 5
>radiosity settings.
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>And this image took 6.5 hours for my P133 :(
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