Even if not totally realistic, this is quite amazing! The ships and the
meteors have detail down to the pixel level, even the crandishness of
the rings. Stylistically I think it's perfect, very crisp with fine
attention to color.

One of the best POV pics I've ever seen.

--
David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
My raytracing gallery:  http://davidf.faricy.net/

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Wooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww!

<<<<OOOO>>>>> my mouth is still wide open.... a fly might just get in.

Btw; if the main sun is right behind; why does the crater have a shadow to
the other side.

Regards

Saadat Saeed

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Very impressive and very nice attention to detail.
    Do/did you have a homepage? you must have an impressive body of pov
work by now..


"H.E. Day" wrote:

> Here it is, the most recent masterpiece....or not.
> http://www.pietyhillcottages.com/Images/sabotage.jpg (633K)
> The original was rendered at 2400x1200 and took 7h32m to render on a
> P200
> 100% POVRay!!
>
> Comments?
>
> H.E. Day
> ???

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"H.E. Day" wrote:
> 
> Here it is, the most recent masterpiece....or not.
> http://www.pietyhillcottages.com/Images/sabotage.jpg (633K)
> The original was rendered at 2400x1200 and took 7h32m to render on a
> P200
> 100% POVRay!!
> 
> Comments?
> 

It looks really good, some thoughts: 

- antialiasing would have done very nice to some parts of the scene,
although others of course would have suffered from it.  

- the explosion IMO is not very realistic for space.  It looks more like
exploding gasoline.  Anyway it looks quite impressive.  

- The rings have quite sharp borders.

- the rocks look really nice, could you have some words how you made them?

- I'm a bit confused by the lighting, do you use radiosity (i suppose not
with 7h32m)

- I much like the ships, any chance for a large size render of a single
one to see the details?

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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> Here it is, the most recent masterpiece....or not.
> http://www.pietyhillcottages.com/Images/sabotage.jpg (633K)
> The original was rendered at 2400x1200 and took 7h32m to render on a
> P200
> 100% POVRay!!

Hmmm...
Incredible :-)
But I don't really like the explosion, it looks too solid.

You say 100% POV, does this include the lensflare?  And if so: have you used
my "50-300mmZooom.lfx"-file ?

cu!


--
ZK
http://www.povplace.be.tf

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Wow ! It's perfect, wonderful, incredible and..and.. !!

Can we see the 2400x1200 render !? 8-b~~

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hmm, not bad...... ;-)



Thomas

"H.E. Day" wrote:

> Here it is, the most recent masterpiece....or not.
> http://www.pietyhillcottages.com/Images/sabotage.jpg (633K)
> The original was rendered at 2400x1200 and took 7h32m to render on a
> P200
> 100% POVRay!!
>
> Comments?
>
> H.E. Day
> <><

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Ben Paschke wrote:

> Very impressive and very nice attention to detail.
>     Do/did you have a homepage? you must have an impressive body of pov
> work by now..
>
> "H.E. Day" wrote:
>
> > Here it is, the most recent masterpiece....or not.
> > http://www.pietyhillcottages.com/Images/sabotage.jpg (633K)
> > The original was rendered at 2400x1200 and took 7h32m to render on a
> > P200
> > 100% POVRay!!
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > H.E. Day
> > ???

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Ya... the explosion does look a little ouf of place. When will NASA just go
blow something up in space so we can see for real what it looks like.

Antialiasing would be nice too.

But the rocks... those are just insane. You could just make a picture of a
bunch of those floating around in space and it would look great.


> It looks really good, some thoughts:
>
> - antialiasing would have done very nice to some parts of the scene,
> although others of course would have suffered from it.
>
> - the explosion IMO is not very realistic for space.  It looks more like
> exploding gasoline.  Anyway it looks quite impressive.
>
> - The rings have quite sharp borders.
>
> - the rocks look really nice, could you have some words how you made them?
>
> - I'm a bit confused by the lighting, do you use radiosity (i suppose not
> with 7h32m)
>
> - I much like the ships, any chance for a large size render of a single
> one to see the details?
>
> Christoph

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Looks pretty excellent!  I really love your sense of design.  I just
checked out your website and was reminded of all the cool stuff I've
seen coming from your direction.

	-- I loved the planetary rings

	-- I loved the emense sense of scale that slight
	   curvature of the planet and the rings bring out

	-- *I* like the explosion, but it might work just as well
	   if it were a bit more transparent.


	But, of course, I do have a few gripes.

	-- This space scene should probably be a little more stark.
	   I mean, the shadows should look almost pitch black, cause
	   almost all the light from the scene is coming from the
	   star with just a little fill coming from the planet and
	   the rings.  This is most noticeable in the giant asteroid
	   in the bottom of the frame.

	-- I think the gas giant could be made much cooler by using
	   layered textures (one cloud color per layer) or by
	   actually making several layers of spheres with different
	   colored clouds on them so that they could cast shadows
	   on each other.

	-- Finally, (whew!) I think the asteroid shape looks a little
	   funny.  It would probably benefit a lot by adding craters
	   of some kind.  If fact, maybe the majority of the shape
	   should be like a potato that someone has attacked with
	  a melon baller!!

Wow! That's a lot of stuff.  But really, keep up the great work, and I'm
sure I'll see your name in lights someday.

	-Ben <><

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