Nice suggestions, thanks. :)

I've taken some liberties with the pouring water, the technique looks good but
it's hard to tweak to realistic circumstances, 'cause it's a julia fractal so I
have very little control over how far the bottle can be from the surface of the
water (if I lower the surface I have to scale the pouring water to meet it,
which then makes it look wierd). If I get time I'll try to replace it with an
isosurface or blob or something.

The forest effect was done out of frustration with trying to make tree meshes
work (see the rather lengthy conversation on povray.advanced-users). I
eventually gave up on the meshes and just created a lot of billboard trees with
a procedural texture.

Yep, that means all those trees are flat!

The texture is pov's spherical pattern with turbulence with a high lambda value.
I've used it as a normal map, which gives the really nice shading, and also to
cut out the shape of each tree. Each tree is mapped onto 1 triangle.

Oh and do you mean the thickness of the glass, or it's width?

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:3e03d84d@news.povray.org...
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> "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
> news:3e03d056@news.povray.org...
> > Right, I figure I probably have only about 4 more days to work on
> this image
> > before the deadline ('cause I'll be away from my computer most of
> next week).
> >
> > So, I need suggestions on what bits you think need work and what
> bits look good.
> >
> > Also, do you think this image is on topic? The original idea was
> that the
> > waterfall and pouring drink looked like mirror images of each other,
> which could
> > only happen for that instant in time, but that idea seems to have
> got lost a
> > little in all the details I've been putting into the scene.
> >
> > All comments and thoughts will be a great help in finishing this
> image.
>
>     Honest opinion Tek? I love the water pouring from the bottle. My
> only problem with it is that 'if' you were to pour water with the
> amount that's coming out you would have stopped/slowed down around
> halfway, two thirds up the glass - that water imo is going over the
> side as it is.
>
>      Also, if you had that amount left in the bottle, it probably
> wouldn't pour like that anyway?
>
>   Generally? I love what you've done with the forestry (how did you do
> that?) and I like the atmosphere of your image.
>
>   Glass is too thin maybe?
>
>    Just some suggestions...
>
>     ~Steve~
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> > --
> > Tek
> > http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> >
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> >
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