"Marc-Hendrik Bremer" <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
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| Bob Hughes schrieb in Nachricht <3958aeac@news.povray.org>...
| >I had to wonder of your comment Marc-Hendrik, I thought it looked overly
| >blazing already.  The top-near log is burning consumingly seemed to me so I
| >even tried to -- ahem -- water it down.
|
| Hope I get that right :-)
| It seems to me that your fire must burn some time already, because it is so
| bright between the logs. In doing so, it would have fired the hole log from
| 'left to right' and I would suppose there were at least some flames or a
| little glow at the end-'cabs'. Anyway, it is kind of nit-picking and it is
| always easier to criticise.
| My wife just fired up our fire-place and in there it is even so, that the
| logs most of the time don't even burn in the middle but on the edges - but
| we make more 'camp-fire'-like and cone-shaped fires in there. So I really
| don't know if it would be the same with this 'layered logs'.
|
| Hope this was a little bit clearer - if not, just ignore this part of my
| last reply, please :~)

I know what you are saying now, so I won't "ignore"  :-)
I'd have to guess that many times a fire burns only in the middle, non-dry
wood for example.  My knowledge of fireplaces and campfires is probably
average (maybe).
Attached is a new fire using a rotated (and a turbulent) 'marble' instead of
'gradient y' to try and get better variations front to back this time.  I
wouldn't call it a great success.  There are also two 'media' in one
'interior' to get the blue part below, and that needs to be diminished or
changed some.  Next I'll try a density_map instead, that should work out far
better.  This one was very slow to render, being about 1h45m for a smaller
res. and no AA; bad radiosity settings too.
I'm also going to move on to split logs instead of these whole ones.
Surprised no one mentioned that first thing.
Thanks for the comments.

Bob

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