"Tony[B]" wrote:
> 
> Well, here it is, after 2 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds. It uses
> 50 samples for the focal blur, besides the photons and the heavy
> max_trace_level, and the machine was being used for other things, so I think
> that time is justified. This was meant to be a quick test-render for the
> final version, but I think it still needs work. It doesn't look much like
> the other one. Still needs a lot of tweaking. I think I'll be faking the
> focal blur with a post_process, among other things. I was wondering if
> anyone can tell me how you would do the pointy triangles of the crown. I
> think making it out of a couple thousand (<17k) spheres in a blob {} is a
> bad idea, isn't it? :\ Maybe an isosurface can do this just as well, or some
> fancy CSG. We'll see. Thanks in advance for all comments and suggestions. :)
> 

Wow, more that 2.5 days for this tiny thing?

For the 'crown', you could of course try an isosurface, but i would
suggest a difference between a 'sphere bowl' and several vertical
cylinders.  You could also try a parabolid bowl instead of a spherical
one.

Christoph

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