Perhaps a small metal table with drinks on it would look good next to the
pool. Maybe a skylight would be good to draw more light into the scene. A
towel rack might be another thing you would see next to a pool.
The pool itself is excellent. How did you get the bricks to follow the edge
like that? The woman looks good as well.

Thomas van der Veen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Attached is a picture I made a few weeks ago with MegaPOV. I like the
> pool and girl, but I don't like the room. The picture missess some,
> there should be something inthe background, but I have no clue at all
> what. Any suggestions are welcome. The trees are made by Neil Alexander
> for one of his IRTC entry (nature).
>
> Thanx
>
> Thomas
>
> ps. YES, she IS naked :)
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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The nicest thing is to think that the girl is close to the watcher ...
The walls could be more textured (Kachel (german), what is the english word
for this?).

Thomas van der Veen schrieb in Nachricht <3948F0A2.EA401BF7@gmx.net>...
>Hi all,
>
>Attached is a picture I made a few weeks ago with MegaPOV. I like the
>pool and girl, but I don't like the room. The picture missess some,
>there should be something inthe background, but I have no clue at all
>what. Any suggestions are welcome. The trees are made by Neil Alexander
>for one of his IRTC entry (nature).
>
>Thanx
>
>Thomas
>
>ps. YES, she IS naked :)
>
>
>
>

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"Hartmut Wagener" <har### [at] arcormailde> wrote in message
news:394976f7$1@news.povray.org...
| The nicest thing is to think that the girl is close to the watcher ...
| The walls could be more textured (Kachel (german), what is the english word
| for this?).

The Babel Fish tells me kachel is "page frame", sounds like a html thing to
me.
I was thinking the walls were too much of a neutral gray.  You usually don't
see such walls unless it's a prison, well maybe not these days though.

Bob

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Thomas van der Veen wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Attached is a picture I made a few weeks ago with MegaPOV. I like the
> pool and girl, but I don't like the room. The picture missess some,
> there should be something inthe background, but I have no clue at all
> what. Any suggestions are welcome. The trees are made by Neil Alexander
> for one of his IRTC entry (nature).
> 
Try to play with lightning. Now it is lit too uniformly (look at this
wall in the left). I'd suggest spot lights in various directions, which
will make it more hmm, "romantic". Or try to decrease ambience.

HTH

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Tiles - my Langenscheid-dictionary says.

Hartmut Wagener schrieb in Nachricht <394976f7$1@news.povray.org>...
>The nicest thing is to think that the girl is close to the watcher ...
>The walls could be more textured (Kachel (german), what is the english word
>for this?).

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SamuelT wrote:

> Perhaps a small metal table with drinks on it would look good next to the
> pool. Maybe a skylight would be good to draw more light into the scene. A
> towel rack might be another thing you would see next to a pool.
> The pool itself is excellent. How did you get the bricks to follow the edge
> like that? The woman looks good as well.

The bricks are done with Chris Colefax Spline include file. It took a lot of
testing to get it right. I would like to do the cut out on the floor tles that
way as well, but I haven't tried it yet. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thomas

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:05:06 +0100 Thomas van der Veen
<tho### [at] gmxnet> wrote:

>Attached is a picture I made a few weeks ago with MegaPOV. I like the
>pool and girl, but I don't like the room. The picture missess some,
>there should be something inthe background...
<snip..>

  Hi, Thomas. IMO you might put something in the foreground near the
blank wall. There aren't enough shadows in this scene to reference where
the light source is. You might place another tree or possibly a
sculpture of some sort adjacent to the wall to balance out the picture.
To me, the rest of the scene looks good, especially the pool and the
ceiling caustics.

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>On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:05:06 +0100 Thomas van der Veen
><tho### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
>>Attached is a picture I made a few weeks ago with MegaPOV. I like the
>>pool and girl, but I don't like the room. The picture missess some,
>>there should be something inthe background...

Maybe you should put a painting of some sort on the gray wall (besides some 
texturing), maybe something you've rendered before :-D

hmmm, or a sculpture, as Alan Kong suggested, something classical; Milo's 
Venus e.g. ;-D (have fun modeling that one!)

And maybe you should try to make the floor look wet?

Best regards,

Bas Leerintveld








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The light on the ceiling effect is neat.
Maybe have the gray area on the left be an opening with some columns into
the outdoors? Possibly at night?  The addition of some moody lighting from
outside would be nice.  And maybe a less busy floor texture.

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Bas Leerintveld wrote:

> hmmm, or a sculpture, as Alan Kong suggested, something classical; Milo's
> Venus e.g. ;-D (have fun modeling that one!)

There is a Venus statue available at the POV-Ray objects collection
that I donated a year ago. It has a lot of smoothing in the triangles
and is reasonably small in size (for a mesh based object) -

http://povobjects.virtualave.net/

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