I'd go the whole way with photons just for the hell of it.

Also to me the sun looks a little small.

Also, I don't know how big these lilies are in real life but compared to the
bottle they seem very large.  But I suppose if the sofware is "LILYview"
then you'd want them to be the dominant object.


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3ce1328f@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
> this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.
>
> I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
> software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
> its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
> freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
> sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.
>
> The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
> are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
> the corkscrew.
> The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
> vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
> by Nathan Kopp.
> And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.
>
> I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
> a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
> screen.
> I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
> in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
> one more high res render.
>
> So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
> whatever out there?
>
>
>
>
>

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