Hugo wrote:

> By using "trial-and-error" and all my knowledge about raytracing, I did this
> today. A few things will be easy to fix, such as the brightness of the red
> color, and the too strong reflection on the white tube-head.


   Very good! The red color seems "tood red", and a bit more reflectant.

 
> I was surprised that I needed heavy "variable reflection" to get the right
> look. Are there any references for real life values?


   I too needed a heavy variable reflection and falloff for the floor of 
my office WIP... very difficult to adjust.

 
> I used one area_light with strength 1.. Is that wrong, or not important
> unless I add other light_sources?
> I didn't use fade_power, but I guess that's correct for the sun?


   Well, if you are not using fading, a strenght of 1 seems fine. 
Perhaps radiosity needs a bit more brightness?

 
> I used focal blur with 30 samples, but the anti-aliasing between red and
> grey is not as good as the photo, while the shadows look pretty much the
> same.. Do you have any idea why?


   30 blur_samples only? :)

 
> Other comments will be welcome!  :o)

   As someone said, the most apreciable difference is that colourful 
grain on the photo. But I don't know how to imitate that inside pov...

   Again, very good!

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