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  Re: Another isosurface image of clouds.  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 30 Dec 2013 07:29:25
Message: <52c16725@news.povray.org>
On 29-12-2013 16:11, William F Pokorny wrote:
> On 12/28/2013 06:33 PM, Fractracer wrote:
>> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> Here finished an image of clouds I've been playing with on and off for a
>>> while. Three isosurface shapes. One light. Radiosity. Render time almost
>>> 2 hours, i7-920.
>>> Bill P.
>>
>> It seems like an abstract wall.
>>
> Yes, it could be. :-) Truth is most of my images end up relatively flat
> because I don't have the skill - and so time - for more complex images.
>
> This one started with me trying to somewhat mimic a photo my daughter
> took with her cell phone. I'll attach it. I never got there - eventually
> failing my way to this more abstract, wall like, image.

A great photo indeed and something that would be interesting to 
reproduce in POV-Ray. I really feel tempted, like when I reproduced that 
b/w photograph for the TC-RTC in 2011: 
http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/imagenewdisplay/stills/index325.html

>
> Oddly, what I like about povray as a hobby is I know I'll never master
> the whole of it. No matter, the exploration and learning itself is fun
> and failure can lead to interesting images.

Absolutely true.

Thomas


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