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From: Spider
Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:48:51
Message: <3715446C.5A695326@bahnhof.se>
This is so good as an image.. not too many objects, a simple but good layout...
yes..
perhaps a window-pane of marble or granite? just so it doesn't look to alike the
window-frames..

Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> Ever since I found out about Nathan Kopp's build of pov-ray I have been
> wanting to try out the photon mapping feature. I just downloaded it this
> 
> morning and played around with it a bit. First image I rendered on it
> was, of course, a glass sphere. However I wanted to see how photon
> mapping would work out in a more complex, real, image. So I tried to
> think of any thick glass objects I had around the house which would look
> 
> nice in a scene. That's when I thought of a small glass ornament I had
> received as a gift from someone, long ago. So here is the image. The
> photon mapping did not produce the result I had thought it would, this
> is probably to do with the fact that the image is quite bright, and
> mostly because I'm new to it and this is my first real try at it.
> However if you look closely you can see the caustics, at the base of the
> 
> ornament on the window ledge. Oh and before I get hundreds of posts
> about the ornament:
> 
> 1.It is a glass ornament of a seal, rendered in Rhino.
> 
> 2. Yes this is how it looks in real life, it is not the result of bad
> modeling.
> 
> If you want a more detailed description of how I created the image you
> can find it on my web page in Gallery 6.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/~thomaslake/
> 
>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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//Spider
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