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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msn com> schreef in bericht
> news:48b8b56f@news.povray.org...
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>>The model of a corinthian capital is still in progress and not yet ready
>>to stand a closeup look, but it took a lot to even get to a first stage
>>of completeness.
>>
>
> That is certainly excellent progress already. I have avoided corinthian
> capitals until now in view of the work implied, so I am impressed.
>
> Thomas
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>
Human features aside, it is really quite a vexing challenge. The steep
curves and grooves of the acanthus shoots the poly count up with so
little to show for it and the model gets heavy quickly.
I thought also that it would be a lot of work but only a lot of work. I
didn't expect to have my ingenuity so thoroughly challenged with the
complex curves in space, the balance of positive and negative space, and
the interaction of natural and geometric elements.
I think I will have to spit my efforts in two directions, one a very
high-poly 'natural' version, breaking the features into separate files
and perhaps even using POV looping to assemble the model at rendertime,
and the other a low-poly, very stylized version. My attempt to
comprimise the two just doesn't seem to work.
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