POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Mantis II : Re: Mantis II Server Time
1 Aug 2024 00:17:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mantis II  
From: Mike Hough
Date: 26 Feb 2009 19:28:27
Message: <49a733ab@news.povray.org>
Dew would be interesting. Think I am done playing with this one for awhile 
though. Here is one last pic that I put together after letting in render for 
24 hours. I copied the image to another layer and blurred it to get a glow 
effect. Was going for damp but it kind of reminds me of a soap opera now.

Mike


"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.49a6b5d7d033a22463a1b7c30@news.povray.org...
> "Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> I tried an aoi pattern on the eyes, which works well for shading but 
>> adding
>> a dark spot on the eye didn't look right. Also changed the flower 
>> color...
>
> That looks really good.  Of course, you can't have to many samples when it 
> comes
> to focal blur, and the grass could be slightly higher-resolution.  It 
> would be
> interesting to see how it would work just a little more 'damp.'  Dew, 
> perhaps?
> More highlights?  I love the mantis though, and the green is a better 
> color than
> the last.
>
> If it helps, here's a vaguely similar image I did a while back.  It 
> started as a
> test for the bokeh effect.  The key was to really boost the dynamic range, 
> but
> this requires a *lot* of samples in order to spread a small highlight out 
> into
> some aperture shape.  (The heptagonal aperture also required some 
> patching.  I
> think MegaPOV has a square aperture.)
>
>
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>
> - Ricky
>


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