Le 2019-10-09 à 20:55, Cousin Ricky a écrit :
> This is a tribute to my high school alma mater, Charlotte Amalie High 
> School in the Virgin Islands.
> 
> This was a 3-pass render:
> 
>    1. A photons pass with no trees on the hills.  For some reason, the
>       shooting of photons stalls when the trees are included, though I
>       cannot see how the trees would interfere with the process.  It is
>       only a small section of the checkered plane that receives
>       photons.  ("Either be patient or do not shoot photons at infinite
>       objects." --Reference Manual)
> 
>       Photon mapping was also faulty with the scene as-is, but when I
>       inserted a patio into the scene, the photons were perfect.  I
>       couldn't figure out why that is.  The patio was removed for the
>       final render.
> 
>    2. A radiosity pass with no trees on the hills (they take a long
>       time to parse) and no rounded edges on the monogram.
> 
>    3. The final pass with trees, the previously saved photons, and the
>       previously saved radiosity.
> 
> "Chicken hawk" here refers to the red-tailed hawk, /Buteo jamaicensis/, 
> which is often seen here in the Caribbean.  I could tell immediately 
> that one of my coworkers went to the same high school when she thought 
> the bird on the VI flag was a chicken hawk.  It is actually an 
> oddly-colored bald eagle, as it is immediately obvious at a glance that 
> our flag was bequeathed to us by the colonizer: 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg

> 
> 
> If people are interested, I will post the code for the rounded edges in 
> p.t.scene-files.

For those trees and photons : You can set the trees so that they don't 
receive any photons with : photons{collect off}

You can replace the trees with some place holder in the initial phases.

Even for the final pass, it may be possible to use a «billboard» that 
show the trees.

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