I'd go the whole way with photons just for the hell of it.

Also to me the sun looks a little small.

Also, I don't know how big these lilies are in real life but compared to the
bottle they seem very large.  But I suppose if the sofware is "LILYview"
then you'd want them to be the dominant object.


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3ce1328f@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
> this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.
>
> I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
> software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
> its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
> freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
> sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.
>
> The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
> are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
> the corkscrew.
> The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
> vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
> by Nathan Kopp.
> And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.
>
> I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
> a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
> screen.
> I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
> in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
> one more high res render.
>
> So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
> whatever out there?
>
>
>
>
>

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What does this software actually do?

I'm curious.

Is

Ive wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is my first image posted to this newsgroup.
> 
> I will use it as a kind of "splash-screen" for a tiny piece of
> software called LILYview. It soon (lets say in three days,
> its in heavy beta testing right now) will be available as
> freeware from my website. The image resolution had to be
> sampled down to about 300x400 pixel.
> 
> The lily is a 3dx mesh stolen from the web, all other objects
> are done by me using simple csg with lathe and one iso for
> the corkscrew.
> The scene uses radiosity and photons (only for the glass of
> vine to keep render time low) and also the lens flare include
> by Nathan Kopp.
> And BTW the vine is a valpolicella.
> 
> I know, it's a cliche (the famous raytracing sunset over
> a water plane) but I think it fits for the use as splash
> screen.
> I'm not really satisfied with the scene but I was a little bit
> in a hurry -  and right now I have time 'till friday to do
> one more high res render.
> 
> So please, any ideas, suggestions, improvements or
> whatever out there?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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"Is" <ism### [at] nospanfirmlogicnet> wrote in message
news:3CE### [at] nospanfirmlogicnet...
> What does this software actually do?
>
> I'm curious.
>
> Is
>
LILYview is just one more image viewer, converter, editor, thumbnail
maker and so on...
...but with some features I always missed when using other software, so
I have done one by my own.
- some features are:
- imports LogLUV high color resolution TIFF images and can adjust
the brightness for them by using the StoNits tag (to calculate absolute

a great feature for POV-RAY doing output in LogLUV color format
(as some other raytracers already do).
- it displays all PNG-images from the PNG test-suite in the way they
should. Except the PNG-Reference viewer no other application that
I know does.
- The PNG compressor produces significant smaller files as e.g. Photoshop.
- Imports Poser bump-maps
..and much more, but I do not want to advertise my software, I just did
go for some feed back on my Lily view picture.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that LILYview works only on Windows
platforms.

So long
-Ive

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The bottle is empty..... how come?

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> LILYview is just one more image viewer, converter, editor, thumbnail
> maker and so on...

That sounds like a program I'd like to get my hands on, give us a call when
you're done? :)

>..and much more, but I do not want to advertise my software, I just did
>go for some feed back on my Lily view picture.

I like your picture, looks great!
Some things I thought of:
"Round off" the table a bit, I think the edge is a bit to sharp..
A little more metallic look on that corkscrew?
Transparent vase with water in it?
Wine in the bottle and photons all over :)

-Peter

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> The bottle is empty..... how come?
>

... can't remember but meanwhile even the glass is empty.

-Ive

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> That sounds like a program I'd like to get my hands on, give us a call
when
> you're done? :)

sure I will. I didn't get any serios bug report yet so I will do a final
render tomorrow and you can expect a post in the off-topic group on friday -
the time does depend on the render time for the final "splash" version.

> I like your picture, looks great!
Thanx.

> Some things I thought of:
> "Round off" the table a bit, I think the edge is a bit to sharp..
> A little more metallic look on that corkscrew?

I think the look comes from beeing in the shadow only lit by radiosity.

> Transparent vase with water in it?
> Wine in the bottle and photons all over :)

I will look what can be done, but don't have the time for a three day
render.

so long
-Ive

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> The glass is empty???   So it just has a red strip or something then?  To
> tell the truth, sure looks like it's filled to me.
>
Well, 'cause the image was done in the past, now the glass is empty.

-Ive

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Lol, ok - understandable :-)


"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3ce295cf$1@news.povray.org...
> > The glass is empty???   So it just has a red strip or something then?
To
> > tell the truth, sure looks like it's filled to me.
> >
> Well, 'cause the image was done in the past, now the glass is empty.
>
> -Ive
>
>
>

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On Tue, 14 May 2002 22:45:34 +0200, "Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote:

>- some features are:
>- imports LogLUV high color resolution TIFF images and can adjust
>the brightness for them by using the StoNits tag (to calculate absolute

>a great feature for POV-RAY doing output in LogLUV color format
>(as some other raytracers already do).

This sounds like a cool image format, is there anyone interested in
coding a patch for POV to output this format? 

I also found this web site that has more details:

http://positron.cs.berkeley.edu/~gwlarson/pixformat/tiffluv.html



Later,
Glen

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