Just trying out some studies in macros and compostion etc... or one could
say I am doodling. Please comment, especially on the flame, if anyone has a
good candle flame they want to share , I would not turn it away (i found
this flame to be very difficult, two scattering medias...)...:-)

tia!

paul

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In article <3b0daab3@news.povray.org>, Paul Jones says...
> Just trying out some studies in macros and compostion etc... or one could
> say I am doodling. Please comment, especially on the flame, if anyone has a
> good candle flame they want to share , I would not turn it away (i found
> this flame to be very difficult, two scattering medias...)...:-)
> 
> tia!
> 
> paul
> 
For one: the glass pieces to me look too much 'not present', I don't 
know how to say it. Their presence is too little accentuated, as if they 
could vanish any moment.
And then: what floor is the board on? A table top? Even when doodling 
you could give the impression we look at recognizable objects. 
At last: the perspective is somewhat odd, IMO. Perhaps the camera should 
be a lot lower?

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Regards,  Sander

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> For one: the glass pieces to me look too much 'not present', I don't
> know how to say it. Their presence is too little accentuated, as if they
> could vanish any moment.

I think the term "ghostly" is what i use :-)  Yeah, I know, I can't seem
to get a good balance of crystalline glass and visibility...
> And then: what floor is the board on? A table top? Even when doodling
> you could give the impression we look at recognizable objects.

I needed something, they were floating in space, but that looked to fake
:-) I have no final destination for this image, it is not a still life
or anything, just trying different techniques. I might put everthing on
a nice wooden table, but we'll see...
> At last: the perspective is somewhat odd, IMO. Perhaps the camera should
> be a lot lower?

The camera position was taken from real life (kinda), I mean to say that
I had a chess board set up and looked at it from a particular angle and
distance, then placed the POV camera in such a way as to mimic the
perspective distortion of the square chess board. 

I don't have time for and hard-core pov work, so I like to just mess
around whenever I get a few minutes.

thanks for the comments!!!
-paul 
> --
> Regards,  Sander

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"Paul Jones" <pdj### [at] psuedu> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Just trying out some studies in macros and compostion etc... or one could
> say I am doodling. Please comment, especially on the flame, if anyone has
a
> good candle flame they want to share , I would not turn it away (i found
> this flame to be very difficult, two scattering medias...)...:-)


Some months ago I made this one (with the blob pattern).
I can post the code (if you want and if I find it :))
jrg.

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"Paul Jones" <pdj### [at] psuedu> wrote in message
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> say I am doodling. Please comment, especially on the flame, if anyone has
> a good candle flame they want to share , I would not turn it away (i
found
> this flame to be very difficult, two scattering medias...)...:-)

Don't know about the "good", but here's mine... Watch out for the
max_trace! Code in p.t.s-f under subject "Candleflame1.inc".

 - Nikodemus

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