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15 Aug 2024 06:18:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Benchmark_Final (428KB)  
From: Patrick Dugan
Date: 22 Jul 2002 00:49:37
Message: <3d3b8ee1@news.povray.org>
I really like the image!  A few gripes though (of course.)  The water
surface looks "off" to me.  It comes across like a partially frozen water,
The dunes (on the left side) have two straight lines in them.  I guess that
is okay but it looks mechanical to me

"Jaap Frank" <jjf### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
news:3d39ef52@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> This is now a correct render of the Benchmark v1.02 with 1152x768.
>
> I've made some slight changes:
> -    Gave each Julia a different color.
> -    Gave the POV-Ray texts T-stone18 and 21 from "stones.inc".
> -    Gave the varies sections of the sockets an ad random shifted texture
so
> they
>      are not casted from one rock any more.
> -    Changed the camera angle to 55 (was 45) and the look_at a little bit
> higher
>      so everything fits in the picture that has a different aspect ratio
> then the original.
> -    Put Photons to the SuperEllipsoids and the Logo, so every reflecting
> object can
>      contribute. (You can see a tiny contribution from the Supers, but
> nothing from the
>      Logo).
> -    Changed the pretrace of  the Radiosity to 0.04 - 0.005.
>
> My PIII 450MHz has crawled over this picture with the amazing mean speed
of
> 4.01
> pixels per second and it made me clear that it needed a rest for it
stopped
> working when I closed several windows just after it finished the picture.
>
> Any comment about the changes I made?
>
> Jaap Frank
>
>
>


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