Wow. Gilles Tran admits to "no artistical merit" and still produces an amazing
image.
The pink bar in the sky is a little odd though, and the lights are a bit dark,
the floor, I think, should have more light on it in general, because there is
too much shadow.

Josh

Gilles Tran wrote:

> Disclaimer : this scene has no artistical merit whatsoever. It's ugly,
> but it's just a test for a radiosity setup that could be acceptable for
> a "real" interior scene.
> It uses some of the recently gained radiosity knowledge posted in this
> group (Arnold settings and outdoors lighting particularly). There's only
> one light source, coming from the window. Everything else is indirect
> lighting. Balancing the light was difficult. I ended up raising the
> brightness to 2 and lowering the Kari Kivisalo light intensity.
> Assumed_gamma is 1. It took 4 hours to render on a PIII 733 at 800*600
> aa 0.3.
>
> Some of the radiosity effects are really OK. Vicky's face is nicely lit,
> and there's even a backlit effect on her right arm. The shadow of the
> chair on the left seems good too. On the bad side, there are quite a
> number of radiosity artifacts visible on the right wall and on Vicky's
> face and right foot (note : raising the recursion level to 2 had
> appalling effects on Vicky so I left it to 1). Also, I had to add
> reflection to the chairs to make them look better, which lets me think
> that one last thing to improve in Megapov radiosity is it's ability to
> react like a regular light with some of  the texture properties
> (highlights). I didn't try to "cheat" with light groups or area lights
> to fix that, though I'll do it probably on a real pic.
>
> Credits : Victoria is the hi-detail Poser girl from Zygote (dress by
> Catherine Todd). The chairs and the library are available on my website
> (when it works). The wallpaper is just terrible.
> The whole scene (but big Vicky who weights around 15 Mb) is posted on
> p.b.s-f.
>
> G.
>
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>  [Image]

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