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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 17:46:39
Message: <3da5f521@news.povray.org>
Hi,

This is my first image made with POV-Ray. Modeling was made with Blender. 
Render time ~ 3.5h on my old 500 MHz machine. I used area lights and high 
quality radiosity.
Hints & comments are welcome! 

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 19:05:30
Message: <3da607ba@news.povray.org>
Its not a sphere, I see no reflections and find the lack of chequered plane
disturbing.

Please refrain from posting good looking, well lit first pov images that so
obviously fail to contain all of the required elements.

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From: Marc Champagne
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:02:05
Message: <Xns92A3CBC0716F1POVMIKA@204.213.191.226>
"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in
news:3da607ba@news.povray.org: 

> Its not a sphere, I see no reflections and find the lack of chequered
> plane disturbing.

eh? hello?
 
> Please refrain from posting good looking, well lit first pov images
> that so obviously fail to contain all of the required elements.

What are you mumbling about?

-- 
(MIKA) Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, CANADA


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:07:00
Message: <3da61624@news.povray.org>
> > Its not a sphere, I see no reflections and find the lack of chequered
> > plane disturbing.
> eh? hello?
>
> > Please refrain from posting good looking, well lit first pov images
> > that so obviously fail to contain all of the required elements.
> What are you mumbling about?
Come on! have some sense of humour, will ya :)

BTW, Andreas: your not going to tell me that is really your first POV-Ray image
ever, right??

cu!
--
camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local C=0
;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1
;#end#end L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
<.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK http://www.povplace.be.tf


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From: Slime
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:10:30
Message: <3da616f6$1@news.povray.org>
This is nice. The thing that looks strange to me is the size of the light
spot coming from the window (that must be a *huge* window, and pretty high
off the floor too). An area_light may help improve it too, especially if
that's supposed to be sunlight.

Nice floor texture. Why are the pictures on the floor?

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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From: Ive
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:31:51
Message: <3da61bf7@news.povray.org>
> What are you mumbling about?
>

The first paragraph of the yet unwritten law for raytracing
folks says:
Your first image has to be a reflective sphere hovering
over a checkered plane.
In some rare cases also a glass sphere is acceptable.

-Ive


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From: Marc Champagne
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 21:13:10
Message: <Xns92A3D7CE9F862POVMIKA@204.213.191.226>
"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in news:3da61bf7@news.povray.org:

>> What are you mumbling about?
>>
> 
> The first paragraph of the yet unwritten law for raytracing
> folks says:
> Your first image has to be a reflective sphere hovering
> over a checkered plane.
> In some rare cases also a glass sphere is acceptable.

Ah yes I remember now, I believe I have followed this law (about 10
years ago) and yes I am pretty sure all newbies must past this ultimate
"I got the prog, now what, lets take the sample scene and play with it" 

-- 
(MIKA) Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, CANADA


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From: Buke9
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 10 Oct 2002 23:26:20
Message: <3da644dc@news.povray.org>
Just my 2 cents but maybe a little atmospheric media would be really cool
(but on a 500 mhz machine maybe too long).
Buke
"Andreas Kreisig" <and### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3da5f521@news.povray.org...
> Hi,
>
> This is my first image made with POV-Ray. Modeling was made with Blender.
> Render time ~ 3.5h on my old 500 MHz machine. I used area lights and high
> quality radiosity.
> Hints & comments are welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Andreas


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From: hughes, b 
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 00:07:48
Message: <3da64e94@news.povray.org>
"Marc Champagne" <nos### [at] pleasecom> wrote in message
news:Xns### [at] 204213191226...
> "Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in news:3da61bf7@news.povray.org:
> > Your first image has to be a reflective sphere hovering
> > over a checkered plane.
> > In some rare cases also a glass sphere is acceptable.
>
> Ah yes I remember now, I believe I have followed this law (about 10
> years ago) and yes I am pretty sure all newbies must past this ultimate
> "I got the prog, now what, lets take the sample scene and play with it"

My very first was a gelatinous-looking torus with blue sphere in the center,
set against a ugly brownish-orangish-yellowish highly turbulent bozo
patterned plane; which I believe was copied from another file by Dan Farmer
or one of those other pioneering POVers' renderings I had seen. I don't
remember now. It took me a while to try the reflective sphere over checkered
plane.

As to this rendering... it seems fairly washed out to me. That might have
been the intention, but were it me doing it radiosity brightness could be
less or lower diffuse. It's a nice scene anyway, especially for a "1st".
--
Farewell,
Bob


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 01:24:19
Message: <3DA66263.8090606@aol.com>
first image with POV-Ray, but first 3d image?


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From: Hugo
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 08:18:54
Message: <3da6c1ae$1@news.povray.org>
>  I used area lights

This could have fooled me. I thought you used a bright plane outside the
window and relied on radiosity to make it shine on the wall / floor.. I
didn't imagine an area_light could make the same effect?

I really like the distribution of light and shadow. It looks sunny and not
too raytraced!

Regards,
Hugo


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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 08:20:18
Message: <3da6c202$1@news.povray.org>
"Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message news:3da616f6$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Nice floor texture. Why are the pictures on the floor?
>

Well, they could have just moved in, or iirc placing pics like this, rather than
hanging, was pretty fashionable quite recently (at least it was in UK, dunno
about elsewhere).


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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:20:12
Message: <3da6de1b@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:

> first image with POV-Ray, but first 3d image?

No, not my very first 3D image. You can see some of my older images here:

http://320002096658-0001.bei.t-online.de/

I'm currently working on a real homepage ...

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:20:24
Message: <3da6de27@news.povray.org>
Zeger Knaepen wrote:

>> > Its not a sphere, I see no reflections and find the lack of chequered
>> > plane disturbing.
>> eh? hello?
>>
>> > Please refrain from posting good looking, well lit first pov images
>> > that so obviously fail to contain all of the required elements.
>> What are you mumbling about?
> Come on! have some sense of humour, will ya :)
> 
> BTW, Andreas: your not going to tell me that is really your first POV-Ray
> image ever, right??

Yes indeed, but not my very first rendering.
Some of my previous images:

http://320002096658-0001.bei.t-online.de/

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:21:10
Message: <3da6de54@news.povray.org>
Hugo wrote:

>>  I used area lights
> 
> This could have fooled me. I thought you used a bright plane outside the
> window and relied on radiosity to make it shine on the wall / floor.. I
> didn't imagine an area_light could make the same effect?
> 
> I really like the distribution of light and shadow. It looks sunny and not
> too raytraced!

Actually it's a simple spotlight with an added area_light statement:

=======================================================
//lamp number: 3 spot_light
#declare Lamp_003 = light_source{
                        0*x
                        color rgb<1.0, 1.0, 1.0>*3.0
                        spotlight
                        point_at <0,0,-1>
                        radius  50
                        tightness  0.075
                        falloff  30.7113438
                        fade_distance 55.0
                        fade_power 1
                        area_light <0,1,0>, <0,0,1>, 5, 5
                }
=======================================================

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:21:46
Message: <3da6de79@news.povray.org>
hughes, b. wrote:

> "Marc Champagne" <nos### [at] pleasecom> wrote in message
> news:Xns### [at] 204213191226...
>> "Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in news:3da61bf7@news.povray.org:
>> > Your first image has to be a reflective sphere hovering
>> > over a checkered plane.
>> > In some rare cases also a glass sphere is acceptable.
>>
>> Ah yes I remember now, I believe I have followed this law (about 10
>> years ago) and yes I am pretty sure all newbies must past this ultimate
>> "I got the prog, now what, lets take the sample scene and play with it"
> 
> My very first was a gelatinous-looking torus with blue sphere in the
> center, set against a ugly brownish-orangish-yellowish highly turbulent
> bozo patterned plane; which I believe was copied from another file by Dan
> Farmer or one of those other pioneering POVers' renderings I had seen. I
> don't remember now. It took me a while to try the reflective sphere over
> checkered plane.
> 
> As to this rendering... it seems fairly washed out to me. That might have
> been the intention, but were it me doing it radiosity brightness could be
> less or lower diffuse. It's a nice scene anyway, especially for a "1st".

Well, it's not my very first scene, of course. But my first POV-Ray image. 
I used Blender (and I'm still using it), but its render engine is not very 
good, but very fast. The image I posted here took only a view seconds to 
render with Blender - great for making animations.

Regarding first images: when I would have to use POV-Rays scene description 
language, I would post spheres and cubes, too. But I don't want to use it 
to much because you need a lot of experiences to create good looking images 
with it. In my opinion it's difficult enough to create images with a good 
modeler - it's a pain with POV-Rays language.

BTW: the TGA image has better quality.

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Andreas Kreisig
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:25:38
Message: <3da6df62@news.povray.org>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:

> Its not a sphere, I see no reflections and find the lack of chequered
> plane disturbing.
> 
> Please refrain from posting good looking, well lit first pov images that
> so obviously fail to contain all of the required elements.
> 

Excuse me :-) My next images will contain lots of chrome spheres and a 
black/white chequered plane. Then I'll try the same with green/white 
chequered planes. Finaly, with some experiences, I'll make some images with 
spheres and cubes.

Regards,
Andreas


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From: Renderdog
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 10:35:07
Message: <web.3da6e0e644ba9ae9b257b2f0@news.povray.org>
Hi Andreas,

Very nice image, I particularly like the washed out
lighting on the objects and the nicely textured and
reflective floor.

Such a fine image for your first, but I see you didn't
scale the cat properly :).

I like the chopped off light (two rods) and distant wall
shadow, though they leave me curious about what they are.


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 14:24:46
Message: <3DA71950.2020307@aol.com>
Andreas Kreisig wrote:
> Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> 
>>first image with POV-Ray, but first 3d image?
> 
> 
> No, not my very first 3D image. You can see some of my older images here:
> 
> http://320002096658-0001.bei.t-online.de/
> 
> I'm currently working on a real homepage ...
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas

Your images evoke a strong response from the viewer which is independant 
of their technical strength


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From: Txemi Jendrix
Subject: RE: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 11 Oct 2002 15:38:05
Message: <3da7289d@news.povray.org>
Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
3da6c202$1@news.povray.org...
> "Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message
news:3da616f6$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > Nice floor texture. Why are the pictures on the floor?
> >
>
> Well, they could have just moved in, or iirc placing pics like this,
rather than
> hanging, was pretty fashionable quite recently (at least it was in UK,
dunno
> about elsewhere).

If you don't have children, maybe.
What will do Django with those pics?
Bye

Txemi Jendrix
tji### [at] txemijendrixcom
http://www.txemijendrix.com


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From: jms
Subject: Re: My first POV-Ray image [118kB]
Date: 13 Oct 2002 10:19:57
Message: <3DA98151.B21A462D@wanadoo.fr>
Andreas Kreisig wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my first image made with POV-Ray. Modeling was made with Blender.
> Render time ~ 3.5h on my old 500 MHz machine. I used area lights and high
> quality radiosity.

Pretty work...

@+


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