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12 Aug 2024 07:24:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Another isosurface landscape  
From: Marc Champagne
Date: 1 Oct 2003 07:40:30
Message: <Xns94074DAE51110POVMIKA@204.213.191.226>
"Nathan O'Brien" <no1### [at] no13net> wrote in
news:3f7a93c6@news.povray.org: 

> Hi all,
> 
> another isosurface landscape. I've tried to incorporate
> comments made about my last landscape. There has been a lot
> more work done on the lighting and image contrast, however
> I still needed to correct the image levels in photoshop.
> There were also some minor touchups done. This render did
> not use radiosity but the multiple lights, sky sphere,
> method with a combination of shadow and non shadow casting
> light sources with attenuation. 
> 
> There texture is still a simple slope texture but the
> colours are much more monochromatic. This isosurface is
> also a lot more complex than the previous one used. There
> are 684 indiviudal isosurface blocks. Each one optimised
> for their container, gradient and accuracy. I've finished
> writing a batch process, using INI files and a Perl script,
> to multi pass render each individual isosurface to
> calculate the optimum gradient and container size. This
> takes a little time but it runs complete overnight and it
> only has to be done the once for any scene.
> 
> This image took 8 hrs, 17min to render.

I'm impresed!

-- 
Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, Canada


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