Hey, I like this image. The tree and butterfly look good and I like the
concept.

Cheers

"Jeremy M. Praay" <sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> I finally decided to wrap-up this scene.  It feels good to finally post to
> p.b.i. again. =D
>
> I went away from the idea that the tree was (figuratively) juggling
> butterflies, and went back to my original idea for this scene, which was
> simply that the tree appeared to be reaching-out to allow the butterfly a
> safe/happy place to land.  In my mind, the tree is yearning for and/or
> worried about the butterfly, which is the only real source of life and
color
> in this scene.
>
> The tree was done with POVTree/TomTree.  The tree has added eye-balls.  I
> waffled on that idea, so I toned them down, but left them in nevertheless.
>
> For the butterfly, I greatly modified the butterfly include from the
POV-Ray
> Objects collection, changing the shape of the body and its textures,
adding
> legs, adding better antenna, getting rid of the eyeballs, and scanning-in
> real butterfly wings at a very-high resolution.  So, there's very little
of
> the original butterfly left, but much of the code is the very similar.
>
> The rocks are stretched isosurface blobs (isoCSG) - f_granite.  Similarly,
> the ground is an isosurface plane - f_crackle - f_granite, and the distant
> mountain/rock was done similarly as well.
>
> About 20h to render at this size, on an Athlon 1800+.  Relatively little
> memory was consumed.
>
> --
> Jeremy
>
>
>

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