This is a scene using a recent painting I did. It is of an african violet
that suffered from my not watering it over winter break since I was out of
town. I tried to maintain some detail in this image...

some problems:
1) I forgot to change the picture frame from glass to what it was supposed
to be. I kind of like it this way though.

2) the color of the back glass didn't turn out right. Maybe I need to make
the water object slightly smaller than the glass object for the color to be
visible from the side.

3) the water in the second glass, closer to the front, looks not right for
some reason. it looks like there is a circular something or other on the
surface. the glass/water objects are just csg cones.

comments on this image or the painting :)

ross

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I like the swirls in the painiting, they are reminiscent of Van Gogh.

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Was the water object used in a 'merge'?  If in a 'union' instead it should show
that color on all sides otherwise you're removing those sides physically by
merging.
Not sure what you meant about the foreground glass water except the hilighting
seems to be cutoff.
Like the painting, btw.

Bob

"Ross Litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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> This is a scene using a recent painting I did. It is of an african violet
> that suffered from my not watering it over winter break since I was out of
> town. I tried to maintain some detail in this image...
>
> some problems:
> 1) I forgot to change the picture frame from glass to what it was supposed
> to be. I kind of like it this way though.
>
> 2) the color of the back glass didn't turn out right. Maybe I need to make
> the water object slightly smaller than the glass object for the color to be
> visible from the side.
>
> 3) the water in the second glass, closer to the front, looks not right for
> some reason. it looks like there is a circular something or other on the
> surface. the glass/water objects are just csg cones.
>
> comments on this image or the painting :)
>
> ross
>
>
>
>

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omniVERSE <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> Was the water object used in a 'merge'?  If in a 'union' instead it should
show
> that color on all sides otherwise you're removing those sides physically
by
> merging.
> Not sure what you meant about the foreground glass water except the
hilighting
> seems to be cutoff.
> Like the painting, btw.
>
> Bob
>

no, no merge was used. I don't really know what i mean about the water in
the foreground. it just doesn't look right. maybe if I put a subtle normal
on it. thanks :)

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This is a bad image. I mean it's good. I like the
way it incorporates "real life" (the fine impasto painting)
with classic ray traced imagery (liquid, glass, etc.)

It is bad because it reminds me of a stack of unfinished
paintings that have been  abandoned by this ray tracing
junky (me:).

Peter Warren
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"Ross Litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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>
> omniVERSE <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:387fd0c9@news.povray.org...
> > Was the water object used in a 'merge'?  If in a 'union' instead it should
show
>
> no, no merge was used
>

That's interesting then.  Got that snippet of script available so to see here?
Shouldn't be losing the sides of another object unless differenced, intersected,
or merged.
The top water surfaces should be clinging to the side of the glass btw, I just
thought of that, although this is distant view enough to not really matter I
guess.  That clear water hilight is unusual so maybe that's what you meant, cut
off partway across.  I wouldn't think a 'normal' could go on there though since
it's motionless.

Bob

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