Nos is this realistic or what? looks like a photo doesnt it? well its not!
it was made entirely in pov-ray. I am now going to render an animation (3
seconds long) of the ocean and the waves this is liek the first frame of the
animation. Look for the animation in the binarys.animation news group today
or tomorrow.

STATS:
celeron 400 overclocked to 500
256 megs of RAm (sdram)
fast as hell scsi 2 hard drive 5 gigs (not much but they are expensive!)
and wndows NT 4.0 sp 4

here is the image...tell me what you think and if it looks real...

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Do'h for got to tell you guys my name and stuff

Its:

Nicholas DePetrillo
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Just one thing(haven't got the image yet) nice stats, but how long time did it
take ???


Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> 
> Nos is this realistic or what? looks like a photo doesnt it? well its not!
> it was made entirely in pov-ray. I am now going to render an animation (3
> seconds long) of the ocean and the waves this is liek the first frame of the
> animation. Look for the animation in the binarys.animation news group today
> or tomorrow.
> 
> STATS:
> celeron 400 overclocked to 500
> 256 megs of RAm (sdram)
> fast as hell scsi 2 hard drive 5 gigs (not much but they are expensive!)
> and wndows NT 4.0 sp 4
> 
> here is the image...tell me what you think and if it looks real...
> 
>                     Name: POV_OCEAN.jpg
>    POV_OCEAN.jpg    Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
>                 Encoding: x-uuencode

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Ok, time to be the critic here..
(as Ken said, (if) I can't trace, I can be a critic :-)
The sea looks good, it's a smooth heightfield, no?
I think you could do more for the sky in this image, it should really gain from
some work. (clouds and so on)

The HF should probably be in a higher resolution for this sort of image, as it
is, it's to easy to see the changes...

Hmm, I also think it lacks some feeling of "wetness" perhaps some
(specular)reflection could do it...

well, it is a good iamge, but the thing to do is the sky...

Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> 
> Nos is this realistic or what? looks like a photo doesnt it? well its not!
> it was made entirely in pov-ray. I am now going to render an animation (3
> seconds long) of the ocean and the waves this is liek the first frame of the
> animation. Look for the animation in the binarys.animation news group today
> or tomorrow.
> 
> STATS:
> celeron 400 overclocked to 500
> 256 megs of RAm (sdram)
> fast as hell scsi 2 hard drive 5 gigs (not much but they are expensive!)
> and wndows NT 4.0 sp 4
> 
> here is the image...tell me what you think and if it looks real...
> 
>  [Image]

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Well, I'm not sure what you were seeing "critic" Spider ;) but I see a
pretty good ocean surface there. What it needs is a slight atmosphere
obscuration to show at the horizon. I think it would look great animated
so I'm waiting to see that.


Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> 
> Nos is this realistic or what? looks like a photo doesnt it? well its not!
> it was made entirely in pov-ray. I am now going to render an animation (3
> seconds long) of the ocean and the waves this is liek the first frame of the
> animation. Look for the animation in the binarys.animation news group today
> or tomorrow.
> 
> STATS:
> celeron 400 overclocked to 500
> 256 megs of RAm (sdram)
> fast as hell scsi 2 hard drive 5 gigs (not much but they are expensive!)
> and wndows NT 4.0 sp 4
> 
> here is the image...tell me what you think and if it looks real...
> 
>  [Image]

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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm not sure what you were seeing "critic" Spider ;) but I see a
> pretty good ocean surface there. What it needs is a slight atmosphere
> obscuration to show at the horizon. I think it would look great animated
> so I'm waiting to see that.
I agree with you... hmm, a slightly turbulented ground fog with a big
distance... *thoughtful glance* 

and I agree, it would look good animated.


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I like it.

A bit like Spider said, looks a bit too dry, I think this is
because there doesn't appear to be a direct light source.

Reminds me of being on the ferry.

Cheers
Steve

Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> 
> Nos is this realistic or what? looks like a photo doesnt it? well its not!
> it was made entirely in pov-ray. I am now going to render an animation (3
> seconds long) of the ocean and the waves this is liek the first frame of the
> animation. Look for the animation in the binarys.animation news group today
> or tomorrow.
> 
> STATS:
> celeron 400 overclocked to 500
> 256 megs of RAm (sdram)
> fast as hell scsi 2 hard drive 5 gigs (not much but they are expensive!)
> and wndows NT 4.0 sp 4
> 
> here is the image...tell me what you think and if it looks real...
> 
>  [Image]

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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm not sure what you were seeing "critic" Spider ;) but I see a
> pretty good ocean surface there. What it needs is a slight atmosphere
> obscuration to show at the horizon. I think it would look great animated
> so I'm waiting to see that.
> 

If you're really up to it AND have Windows95/98 installed on some system you
could try the 5Mb download of ACWODS which is nothing more then suggested here
in a screensaver-form.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/zip/acwods.zip

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That is by far the best ocean I have ever seen come out of POV. Some
people get water that looks ok at a distance, while others have water
that look ok up close. This image gets the best of both. My guess for th
method is a waves normal combined with some other normal all converted
to a HF, thand rendered.
Please post the source (or, if it is an HF, post the method for creating
the surface and the textures used)!!!

If there was anything that needed improvement, consider making the
highlights less blue and the non-waves component of the surface less
noticable)
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you guys wanted to know how long it took...well it took no more than 2 to 3
min...it doesnt have a lot of refectivity or raytracing stuff in it (the
shadows were reaytraced and satuff) but it looks real right?....


nick d
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