"David Fontaine" wrote:
> Nice, I bet it looks a lot better uncompressed too.

Thanks!

It looks a little better uncompressed (red and green are clearer), but it's
not a big difference. Well, actually I haven't seen the image 100%
uncompressed, since I got it as a .jpg from TonyB, but it was much higher
quality than the one posted here.

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"Peter Cracknell" wrote:
> Thats a nice image!

Thanks!

> Primarily there is a good atmosphere that the red light
> produces,

Yes, it was a quite a lightning experiment for me, who has not experimented
much with lightning before :-)

> though personally I'm not fan of the hexagonal (or similar)
> texture

It's supposed to look like metal used in a maybe kind of alien way, if that
makes sense.
It's an abstract image anyway...

> - maybe there are wires that look like the but I've never seen them.

Well, it's an abstract image, so...

But what is it that is strange about them?

> POssibly add a bit of a 'muck' the wires or snapped wires
> and it would be 'top class'.

Hmm, I think myself that the wires are good enough :-)

> I'd be interested in comments on how it was created - I'm
> assuming you used or created a macro for this.

Several macros were used...

The object you see in the attached image contains 8 half beams and 16
splines (each made of 2 spline segments).

To create the splines I used Chris Colefax's Spline Macro System, but a lot
of coding were required to adopt it to my scene.

The object in the attached image is repeated 55 times in the scene in a kind
of pyramid tiling. Most of them are visible in the image. The objects are
textured after they are tiled. That way I avoid that the textures tile too.

For speed reasons I also coded the splines so that the ones in the front of
the image are smooth, but the further into the background you go, the less
cylinders and spheres the splines are made of.

Hmm, there's a lot more to it, but I can't explain it all here... :-)

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Preview of image 'networkunit.jpg'

Wow! Looks like some sort of alien "forest". Is that a man in a space
suit in the upper right corner?

Ken Matassa

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Rune wrote:
> 
> "Tor Olav Kristensen" wrote:
> > I like this wire mess. Good light setting.
> ...
> > Where you inspired by the Brazil movie ?
> 
> No. Which Brazil movie?

Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985)

http://www.ecreations.com/movies/reviews/b/brazil.shtml

http://www.trond.com/brazil/

It's a truly weird and chaotic film.
An I think it's quite famous too.

In one of the scenes in this film there are
some of the most delicious tube- (and cable- ?)
messes I've ever seen.

Unfortunately none of the pages at this site 
shows good images from this scene:
http://www.trond.com/brazil/images.html

But this image gives you a little hint:
http://www.trond.com/brazil/images/brazil16.jpg


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> It's a solid crackle patter (MegaPOV) with a crackle normal with a
> slope_map, and some small dents added to the normal too.

I like this image.
This texture is a realy good one. As I'm a weak scripter, I wasn't able
to recreate it. Is it possible to have a look on this part of the
script?

Thank's
DEPerere

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"DEPerere" wrote:
> I like this image.

Thanks!

> This texture is a realy good one. As I'm a weak scripter,
> I wasn't able to recreate it. Is it possible to have a
> look on this part of the script?

When I get the time I'll clean up the whole source code and put it on my
website, but in the meantime, here's the code for the texture I talked
about:

pigment {
   crackle solid
   scale 0.15
   frequency 20
   color_map {
      [0.0, color <0.7,0.7,0.7>]
      [1.0, color <1.0,0.7,0.4>]
   }
}
normal {
   average
   normal_map {
      [crackle 0.4 scale 0.15 slope_map {[0,v][.05,1][.05,u]}]
      [dents 2 scale 0.05 turbulence 1]
   }
}
finish {phong 0.2 phong_size 1 brilliance 2}

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"Ken Matassa" wrote:
> Wow!

:-)

> Looks like some sort of alien "forest". Is that a man
> in a space suit in the upper right corner?

You can decide for yourself if it's a man in a space suit, an alien, or
something completely else. :-)

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"Tor Olav Kristensen" wrote:
> Rune wrote:
> >
> > "Tor Olav Kristensen" wrote:
> > > I like this wire mess. Good light setting.
> > ...
> > > Where you inspired by the Brazil movie ?
> >
> > No. Which Brazil movie?
>
> Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985)
>
> http://www.ecreations.com/movies/reviews/b/brazil.shtml
>
> http://www.trond.com/brazil/
>
> It's a truly weird and chaotic film.
> An I think it's quite famous too.

Thanks for the links. Looks interesting...

Greetings,

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> here's the code for the texture I talked
> about:
> 

Thanx, I'm going to study the script.

A+
DEPerere

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