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  Re: Metal & Flowers WIP? 5 - with new colors!  
From: Alain
Date: 21 Aug 2007 17:38:51
Message: <46cb5b6b@news.povray.org>
Simon nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/21 17:21:
> Just to add my 2p - Blue for me with Teal a very close second. I like the 
> white also, but less so. Black is _ok_ buy you don't see the shadows - which 
> defeats the point a little?
> 
> Khaki works colour-sie but seems a little boring compared to the others. I 
> find the green overpowering.
> 
> Whatever you go with, I think they're all great.
> 
> the answer is probably "awful" but what do they look like with solid colours 
> but different in each "frame"?
Could be nice, but you'll loose a sense of unity. May be OK in some setings, or 
as a way to show every available colours in one go, if you don't have enough 
place to have a sample of each colour.
> 
> "Rune" <new### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message 
> news:46c7a10d@news.povray.org...
>> Okay, so I've finally gotten all the details to a level where I'm 
>> satisfied with it. (You wouldn't believe how many tweaks I've made since 
>> the last version I posted, that probably no one else than me even 
>> notices...) Making test-prints with my printer have made me aware of 
>> issues with things than don't work as well on print as on the screen, 
>> because nuances in colors and luminance is lost once printed. To deal with 
>> that, contrast of certain textures have been enhanced, which looks better 
>> on the screen too as a bonus.
>>
>> Anyway, I've splitted the image into several layers, and once the 
>> background layer was separate, it suddenly got temptingly easy to play 
>> around with it... In my head the background was always just white, but 
>> after having seen some of the possible alternatives, I'm suddenly not sure 
>> I prefer white anymore. I don't know which version I want to have printed!
>>
>> What to do, what to do...
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Teaser image is attached, the full versions can be seen here (in png 
>> format, so the page is slightly heavy):
>> http://runevision.com/3d/metalandflowers/
>>
>> BTW, the blue, teal and green color is carefully selected. Colors with red 
>> in don't work well so shades of red, yellow, and violet are out. Also, 
>> light colors don't work well (except completely white), nor almost black 
>> or gray ones (except completely black). I also tried some linear gradient 
>> with color to white and color to black. At first it looks really sweet, 
>> but after looking at it for a little white it begins to just look cheap. 
>> Compromises don't work here. Just one strong color.
>>
>> Rune
>> -- 
>> http://runevision.com
>>
>>
> 
> 


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Alain
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