"Michael Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Now rendering:
>
> Sunrise with clouds..
>
> This was inspired by Tek's sunrise animation using scattering media.


Yay me!

> It's
> amazing how the clouds really bring out the orange and yellow tones in the
> image..

They do add a lot more visual interest than my scene had.

By a strange coincidence I'd also been thinking about doing a sunrise with
clouds. Someone mentioned Gilles Trans' makeclouds on these groups recently, and
that started me looking into that again. I'm currently rendering wallpaper-sized
versions of the beautiful test scenes for it, but I'm thinking next I might try
combining those test scenes with some of my sunrise animation tricks to get a
really cool animation. Although I'm not sure I have the patience to render an
animation with that kind of complexity!

> Right now, the clouds are a bit rough.. I've noticed quite a lot of
> artifacting when the clouds are in the distance. I created a macro to
> generate "cumulus-like" cloud patters using Granite as the pattern function.
> I'd like to expand my library to having some cirrus, stratus, and perhaps
> cumulonimbus.. but for now, the puffy little things with silver lining are
> enough ;)

I'd be interested in seeing a higher-res frame from a little later in the
animation (i.e. when the sun's a bit higher in the sky), to better see those
distant clouds. At the moment it's hard to tell how good they look because
they're so small (though maybe that's a good thing?!).

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com

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