Hello all. It's been a while since I've posted a scene here, hasn't it?
Well, here's a scene I've been playing with. It uses isosurface objects
for the canopy, the metal fasteners at the bottom of the posts, the
plant under the canopy, and the cliff behind with their plants.

The cliff and the plants are one isosurface, repeated 3 times. I
'merged' the plants and cliff in a single isosurface, and made the
pigment behave accordingly, so that the green for the plants did not
color the cliffs.

I'm still unhappy with the way I colored the cliff and it's plants, so I
guess the scene isn't done yet.

Oh yeah, the canopy is an isosurface, not the posts, which are torii and
cylinders.

Questions? Comments?

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>Hello all. It's been a while since I've posted a scene here, hasn't it?

Yup.

>The cliff and the plants are one isosurface, repeated 3 times. I
>'merged' the plants and cliff in a single isosurface, and made the
>pigment behave accordingly, so that the green for the plants did not
>color the cliffs.

Clever.

>I'm still unhappy with the way I colored the cliff and it's plants, so I
>guess the scene isn't done yet.

I like it. Perhaps if you added a sky_sphere to reflect off of the water it
would help a bit?


>Visit the still unfinished isosurface tutorial:
>http://members.aol.com/stbenge


Plan on expanding this someday?

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Very nice picture! Noise3D plants?

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TonyB wrote:

> I like it. Perhaps if you added a sky_sphere to reflect off of the water it
> would help a bit?

Thanks. The funny thing is that I have a very bright-blue fog and a nice blue
background. The water just simply isn't picking the sky up. Perhaps if I
increased the normal depth of the waves, the sky would reflect, but I think
calmer water might look better.


> >Visit the still unfinished isosurface tutorial:
> >http://members.aol.com/stbenge
>
> Plan on expanding this someday?

Yeah, but I'm kinda lazy. I need to get motivated. Of course, I still need to
contribute my time to the isosurface list still (not forgotten ;).

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Yeah, good old noise3d. I used the noise3d plant technique which
appeared a few weeks ago on this server.

David Fontaine wrote:

> Very nice picture! Noise3D plants?
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Not sure why there's any question as to the width of this image, but I don't see
anything wrong with it besides.  The colors seem okay to me for a early morning
or late afternoon sunlight.  Perhaps the cliff texture could use sharper
boundary pigment changes or something to divide it into layers more.  It seems a
little putty-like.  As to the water reflection, obviously we are only able to
see the cliff walls and not above to the sky anyway.  Think you're right that to
see any errant sky reflecting there would need to be more angle to the surface
waves.

Bob

"SamuelT." <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote in message news:387936A6.F65CA930@aol.com...
> Hello all. It's been a while since I've posted a scene here, hasn't it?
> Well, here's a scene I've been playing with. It uses isosurface objects
> for the canopy, the metal fasteners at the bottom of the posts, the
> plant under the canopy, and the cliff behind with their plants.
>
> The cliff and the plants are one isosurface, repeated 3 times. I
> 'merged' the plants and cliff in a single isosurface, and made the
> pigment behave accordingly, so that the green for the plants did not
> color the cliffs.
>
> I'm still unhappy with the way I colored the cliff and it's plants, so I
> guess the scene isn't done yet.
>
> Oh yeah, the canopy is an isosurface, not the posts, which are torii and
> cylinders.
>
> Questions? Comments?
>
> --
> Samuel Benge
>
> E-Mail: STB### [at] aolcom
>
> Visit the still unfinished isosurface tutorial:
> http://members.aol.com/stbenge
>
>


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SamuelT. wrote in message <387936A6.F65CA930@aol.com>...
>Questions? Comments?


Wonderful. Gives a great feeling of peace and calmness


Any chance of the source/ a larger version. This looks like a very
good contendor for the next desktop image. (To replace your deserrt scene of
november)

Gail
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:28:49 -0800, in message
<38796E10.2E452D06@aol.com>, "SamuelT." <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>The water just simply isn't picking the sky up. Perhaps if I
>increased the normal depth of the waves, the sky would reflect, but I think
>calmer water might look better.

  Hmm, maybe, but I like the look of the water the way it is - gives the
impression of movement past the canopy. I can 'hear' a soothing gurgling
sound when I look at your image <s>.

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Yes I too find this a very peaceful image. Excellent work

Mick

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> SamuelT. wrote in message <387936A6.F65CA930@aol.com>...
> >Questions? Comments?
>
>
> Wonderful. Gives a great feeling of peace and calmness
>
>
> Any chance of the source/ a larger version. This looks like a very
> good contendor for the next desktop image. (To replace your deserrt scene
of
> november)
>
> Gail
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 17:32:22 -0800, "SamuelT." <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>
>I'm still unhappy with the way I colored the cliff and it's plants, so I
>guess the scene isn't done yet.
>
The cliffs have the texture and colour I would expect in a some limestones and I like
the
naturalness of the plants.  The water is good - don't change it!

What jars slightly in the image for me is the square base under the canopy going
straight
down into the water.  To achieve a more realistic feel to this I would like to see it
resting on a, perhaps, sloping rock just surfacing from the water.

These iso-surfaces are creating a revolution in POV!

Great stuff.

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