you know what wouldve been really neat was if the hands were round a crystal
ball and the woman was in the glass....i know its kind of getting away from
what you had in mind.  but still......

john


"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3CEA866C.E3CC5A94@gmx.de...
> So, this one took roughly two days (no accurate seconds due
> to booting in between to flush RAM) to trace.
>
> Both hands have different sample-rates, because the right
> one was looked at such an odd angle in certain cases, that
> the media-algorithm messed up with less than 200 samples
> (250 used on the right, 35 on the left!!!!).
> Its also the right hand that doesn't look as good as the
> left one, but they're made of the same material, so I guess
> that's a lighting thingy, nothing which I can influence unless
> those two hands don't belong to the same person.
>
> The scattering media to add that nice glow was traced with
> 55 samples, the woman (as we don't see her so close) required
> only 40 samples to look that good.
> (Hm. I think that's something based in reality. You don't need so
> many "samples" to figure if a woman is the right one or not...unless
> you've spent a looooong time, and then you say: Well, that was
> POV 3.5. We're at 5.6 now. Whatever. ;)
>
> There are three lightsources. One external, out of image, to lighten
> the entire scene.
> One inside the woman to make her glow warmly from inside.
> One just in front of the woman (actually between her breasts), to have
> some light be shed from her glowing heart. If I'd placed the lightsource
>
> further away, the breasts wouldn't have been illuminated as if from her
> heart...
> The inside "heart-light" required a lot of tweaking to not make it to
> much or too less. I left it where it was after I've gotten to the point,
> where
> the light just illuminates the outer rim of her breasts, to actually put
>
> her female character a little more in focus. I know, you'd have seen
> her breasts without it too, but I think it has a much more attractive
> sense to it.
>
> No area-lights. No focal-blur. No ambient-light.
>
> Its just what men should treasure most, IMHO.
>
> --
> Tim Nikias
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
>


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