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  Re: after "After Vermeer"...  
From: wich
Date: 10 Sep 2002 16:30:34
Message: <3d7e566a@news.povray.org>
The left one is no painting, but a mirror! (shouldn't be to difficult to
model with Povray ;)  )
http://www.mystudios.com/vermeer/14/vermeer-music-lesson-mirror.jpg

Nice job so far.


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3d7e31fa@news.povray.org...
> ...or Jean Baudrillard would have said: "simulation of a simulation"
>
> Well, at least a good exercise and a nice way to beat the time at
> a rainy day. The original image is the cover art of the old bible for
> graphics programmers:
>
>  "Dutch Interior, after Vermeer", 1987
>  by J. Wallace, M. Cohan, and D. Greenberg, Cornell University
>
> I guess at this time they used some mainframe for doing the render.
> The POV-Version is only lit with radiosity and took about 7h with
> a 800MHz Athlon. I think the lighting in this scene looks even more
> *real* than the original.
> A version with higher error_bound setting was closer to the original
> image and took only 1h. Not so bad.
>
> The POV scene was done with a lot of guessing, assuming, trial and
> error to recreate the 3d scene from the 2D-image. Far away from
> beeing perfect but this was the best I could do without loosing my
> patience.
>
> The paintings on the wall are still a problem. I guessed they where
> both by Rembrandt but it seems that this is only true for the second
> (the bigger one). In the original version this image looks a little size
> distorted (like they have used a wrong aspect ratio for the image
> map) but I think it is the same painting.
> Does anybody recognize the first one?
> I have simply used another Rembrandt for the moment.
>
> If finally some of  you would like to copy the original Vermeer painting:
>
http://www.about-vermeer-art.com/vermeer/vermeer-oil-paintings/paintings/20.
> html
>
>
> questions, comments?
> -Ive
>
>
>
>
>


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