Hi all,

A touch of focal blur, a large area light, and media in conjunction with light fading.
I
tried to use radiosity to get a really white, bleached look, but it seemed to stop the
rays from leaving the confines of the objects.

I really like this image. I hope you do too.

Me....use 'minimal'.....to avoid a lot of work? NEVER! ;-)

Andy

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A very nice effect.
//Spider

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A touch of focal blur, a large area light, and media in conjunction with light
fading. I
> tried to use radiosity to get a really white, bleached look, but it seemed to stop
the
> rays from leaving the confines of the objects.
> 
> I really like this image. I hope you do too.
> 
> Me....use 'minimal'.....to avoid a lot of work? NEVER! ;-)
> 
> Andy
> 
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk
> 
>  [Image]

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Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A touch of focal blur, a large area light, and media in conjunction with light
fading. I
> tried to use radiosity to get a really white, bleached look, but it seemed to stop
the
> rays from leaving the confines of the objects.
> 
> I really like this image. I hope you do too.

Yeah, well, if you want my honest opinion (which perhaps you don't - tough luck
;-)), I think the 'great balls of fire' are interesting to say the least, but I
have a feeling the image gets drowned in focal blur. I think I'd like it much
better if it was a bit sharper. That's mainly a matter of taste; I like the
table very much, for instance, because it's clean and simple, but I'd like it
better if it looked a bit more crisp (?).

Regards,

Remco
> 
> Me....use 'minimal'.....to avoid a lot of work? NEVER! ;-)
> 
> Andy
> 
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk
> 
>  [Image]

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Ominous looking.
Concerning the bleached look, guess you were going for a photon overload
or something? Must have been some render time in this thing eh, the
shadows look smooth, the media looks smooth, the focal blur looks
smooth.

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A touch of focal blur, a large area light, and media in conjunction with light
fading. I
> tried to use radiosity to get a really white, bleached look, but it seemed to stop
the
> rays from leaving the confines of the objects.
> 
> I really like this image. I hope you do too.
> 
> Me....use 'minimal'.....to avoid a lot of work? NEVER! ;-)
> 
> Andy
> 
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk
> 
>  [Image]

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Hi Bob,

Bob Hughes wrote in message <36B7B8DA.9295418E@aol.com>...
>Ominous looking.
>Concerning the bleached look, guess you were going for a photon overload
>or something? Must have been some render time in this thing eh, the
>shadows look smooth, the media looks smooth, the focal blur looks
>smooth.


It only took a couple of hours on a P133 ( not sure exactly how long, as I fell
asleep! )
The fact is, I haven't got the patience to learn how to model 'life-like' objects, and
my
particular leaning is toward the abstract anyway. ;-)

Andy
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Hi,

The radiosity/media problem seems to be a limitation of Povray.  See the
thread "Radiosity & Media ??????????" for more information on this. A
possible workaround for this would be to do two renders. One with radiosity
and media turned off. The second render would have media, no radiosity, and
all the object textures set to flat black (rgb 0 ambient 0). Then using an
image editing package (such as Adobe Photoshop, or I think Paint Shop Pro
might be able to do it) you merge the two images, using the media render as
an additive transparency layer (not sure what the PSP terminology is -
anyone who has used PSP to do this, maybe you could post the exact method?).
This would achieve nearly exactly the same results. If you can't do this
yourself, then send me the two images, and I'll do it for you.

Equiprawn

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