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Does this look like amber?
Once I had a similar piece, but I have lost it long ago (among many other
things) at one of my numerous removals so I do not have any reference
object here. I also did not find any good picture in the web.
Anyway here is my try at something amberish and I already can hear
you call PHOTONS! Well, they will come and there is also a need
for a different lighting setup, some other backgound...
Until now I have no scene idea for this amber (?) piece, suggestions
are welcome.
-Ive
P.S. Somehow I do not manage it to finish one of my scenes, there are
meanwhile about five nearly complete ones but each of them will last a
few days for a final render. And I have too many different ideas in my
mind...
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Ive wrote:
> Does this look like amber?
I have no reference either but I am certainly ready to believe it looks
like amber. It looks very good.
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Ger Remmers wrote:
> All the ambers I have seen were a lot clearer and a lot smoother.
> More of an oily kind of color
I'm not sure it has to be clearer, but I think of amber as smoother and
more brown-orange.
/ martin
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> Looked around a bit and this is one I found
>
> Cheers
>
> Ger
Wow, thanks. But I think I'm not so far away from
this one 'cause here is a completely different lighting
and the piece is on a bright ground. I'm currently
doing also a new lighting version and will post it in
a few hours (when it's finished).
-Ive
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"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoft com> wrote in message
news:3dee1888@news.povray.org...
> Does this look like amber?
Your amber is actually 'very' good. I've dealt with and set many
geographical variations of amber before now, and what you've got there
is a piece that's very old and 'weathered' - as if found on the Baltic
shores. It would be found in that condition and then polished for
sale. A piece with a bug in it like that would be very highly prized
and could be worth a small fortune.
As for the colour of amber, it can vary immensly from a totally
unclear cream colour through orangy opaque to totally clear and bright
orange. It can also look green or yellow. Amber can have many natural
flaws like cracks and what I call 'flowers' inside of them (not sure
of the exact term, but if you imagine a small disc shape in various
diameters and at different angles to eachother - these reflect light
fairly well, almost mirror-like).
Nice work!
~Steve~
> -Ive
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:01:22 +0100
"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote:
Very good! Your texturing skills are getting really good (I really
liked the gold on the Dragon).
> Does this look like amber?
Yes, it is very recognizable (the insect inside helps, no doubt).
> Once I had a similar piece, but I have lost it long ago (among many
> other things) at one of my numerous removals so I do not have any
> reference object here. I also did not find any good picture in the
> web.
You don't use Google? My first try many reference photos:
http://images.google.com/images?q=amber+insect&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
As you see, the colors vary from a dark orange to yellow. I suppose
there are many kinds of amber out there.
> Until now I have no scene idea for this amber (?) piece, suggestions
> are welcome.
The table on the lab of a naturalist?
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org
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Same room but with a different lighting.
Same piece of amber but the surface is less rough, I'm
not sure if the polishing is an improvement, I also do like
the more "weathered" version. The antialiasing settings
are this time quite poor 'cause I was so impatient.
The shape (its just a blob) needs also some work.
-Ive
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> I have no reference either but I am certainly ready to believe it looks
> like amber. It looks very good.
>
To make you something believe is all raytracing is about, isn't it?
:-)Ive
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A very old piece as found on the Baltic shores. Wow. Phantastic.
Thanks a lot and it's nice to hear that my virtual piece as done from
my memories has something to do with the real thing.
-Ive
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> Very good! Your texturing skills are getting really good (I really
> liked the gold on the Dragon).
Well, you know, most of the things I have learned from looking
at some of your sources. Especially the way you did create the
micro-surface-normals in your nuts&bolts scene. It took a while
'till I did understand what the heck you where doing there but
meanwhile I really do prefer this way (compared e.g. to large
scaled normals for blurred reflections) because it gives you a
very powerful and precise control on the appearance of the
surface. Was this technique (so to say) invented by you?
> You don't use Google? My first try many reference photos:
Ahem, silly me, I did not use the image search and found just
numerous technical/geographical/scientifical pages. But at least
I got the IOR from there.
> The table on the lab of a naturalist?
Hmm, one more room to create. We will see.
-Ive
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