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From: Rune
Subject: Out of reach
Date: 7 Feb 2003 23:21:39
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A different kind of experiment...

(Yes, heavily post-processed...)

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From: Apache
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 04:10:42
Message: <3e44c992@news.povray.org>
gosh, you sound happy on that card! :P


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 05:00:47
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Rune wrote:
> A different kind of experiment...

http://home.earthlink.net/~mmcdavid/midi/movies/britelif.mid


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From: Artis Rozentals
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 05:33:50
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"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> writes:

> (Yes, heavily post-processed...)

Love is just like a raytracer -- you have to do it right in one run
and post-processing is not possible.
POV-Ray is better than love, because there is an excelent manual and
the source is available...

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From: Andrew Coppin
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 06:36:49
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"Artis Rozentals" <art### [at] aaaapollolv> wrote in message
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> "Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> writes:
>
> > (Yes, heavily post-processed...)
>
> Love is just like a raytracer -- you have to do it right in one run
> and post-processing is not possible.
> POV-Ray is better than love, because there is an excelent manual and
> the source is available...

Dam that's amusing!!
Andrew.


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 17:28:14
Message: <3e45847e@news.povray.org>
Are you going to release the blob character?  It'd make a cool
villian/monster for my next IRTC anim......


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 19:55:34
Message: <3e45a706$1@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Are you going to release the blob character?
> It'd make a cool villian/monster for my next
> IRTC anim......

Come on Greg, why insult me like this? I really don't know what it is I
have done to you.

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From: St 
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:31:23
Message: <3e45af6b@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
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    (Rune, you haven't done anything. As an old timer that's 'nearly'
as old as Ken and Bill with 'nearly' enough wisdom in me (and a few
more teeth! ;)  I would suggest that you just leeeeet it goooo, and
ignore any derogatory remarks. Just rise above it mate.)


  Fantastic image though! Good idea. Really clean and sharp, but to
the point.   :)

   How did you get the shape of the heart like it is, nice and
rounded?

   ~Steve~



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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:40:32
Message: <3e45b190@news.povray.org>
St. wrote:
>   Fantastic image though! Good idea. Really clean
> and sharp, but to the point.   :)

Thanks a lot! :)

>    How did you get the shape of the heart like
> it is, nice and rounded?

The heart is the poly shape posted by Ken in this thread:

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/22204/

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:45:37
Message: <3e45b2c1@news.povray.org>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>> A different kind of experiment...
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~mmcdavid/midi/movies/britelif.mid

Heh, this made me laugh... :)

Thanks mate...

Keep in mind tho that it took me quite a while to get this image from
idea to reality, and it's not like I've been sad that entire time... It
just come over me every now and then. But there are good things in life
too; luckily.

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:45:38
Message: <3e45b2c2@news.povray.org>
Apache wrote:
> gosh, you sound happy on that card! :P

Yeah, I'm just such a happy, optimistic and cheerful person.

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From: St 
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:50:38
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"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
news:3e45b190@news.povray.org...
> St. wrote:
> >   Fantastic image though! Good idea. Really clean
> > and sharp, but to the point.   :)
>
> Thanks a lot! :)
>
> >    How did you get the shape of the heart like
> > it is, nice and rounded?
>
> The heart is the poly shape posted by Ken in this thread:
>
> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/22204/

   Thank you Rune! Doh! I must have missed that thread last year!

   Hmm... Yes, I think I can work that out. We'll see... ;)

    ~Steve~


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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 21:12:40
Message: <3e45b918@news.povray.org>
Hey Rune, cheer up, will ya?
:-)

I know those times pretty well, as you can easily
read within the images of my last two years (which
were actually only the phase in which I had become
sophisticated enough to use POV-Ray for Expression),
and they'll pass.

Regards,
Tim


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 21:42:44
Message: <3e45c024@news.povray.org>
Tim Nikias wrote:
> I know those times pretty well, as you can easily
> read within the images of my last two years

Yeah, I know. I always regarded you as being emotional in that same way,
and I think we have some things in common...

> and they'll pass.

But that's the funny thing! I *know* they'll pass. My logic and common
sense tells me so. However, feelings are not controlled by logic... They
are not there to make sense, they just are. That is what makes them
difficult to deal with, and it is also what makes them beautiful.

Rune
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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 22:30:12
Message: <3e45cb44$1@news.povray.org>
Come on, I'm just teasing. I see a really photorealistic person in the image
and it was the first joke that came across my head...


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 23:06:04
Message: <3e45d3ac$1@news.povray.org>
Nice image! I really like it!

Oh, and don't worry, someday you'll find that glass shattered, just make
sure you don't cut yourself then :-/
:)

cu!
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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 23:33:07
Message: <3e45da03@news.povray.org>
Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> Nice image! I really like it!

Thank you! :)

> Oh, and don't worry, someday you'll find that glass
> shattered, just make sure you don't cut yourself then :-/
> :)

Hehe yeah... I try to be careful. A few scars might be for the better in
the long run though. So much to learn...

Rune
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From: Daniel Matthews
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 8 Feb 2003 23:59:32
Message: <1939945.iQCGez6qk3@3-e.net>
Well I guess you will think about other's feelings next time, yes?
A little more frontal lobe action would be good, perhaps two criteria should
determine if you post, funny and appropriate.

Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> Come on, I'm just teasing. I see a really photorealistic person in the
> image and it was the first joke that came across my head...


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From: DJ Wiza
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 9 Feb 2003 05:28:35
Message: <3e462d53$1@news.povray.org>
*sniff*


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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 9 Feb 2003 06:55:26
Message: <3e4641ae@news.povray.org>
> But that's the funny thing! I *know* they'll pass. My logic and common
> sense tells me so. However, feelings are not controlled by logic... They
> are not there to make sense, they just are. That is what makes them
> difficult to deal with, and it is also what makes them beautiful.

You're right about that one. If they'd be so easy to control, what would
falling in love with someone actually imply? As it is, it is a very strong
bond, not easily to be shaken once you're there, unless mistrust or
misbehaviour put stress on that.
You've got to find a position for yourself, where you can get a grasp
of what you're feeling more precisely, and know the cause and effect.
It helps at least taking control and the initiave on your mood.

I, for one, have found that knowing what stresses and freaks me out
helps me avoid situations like those, and, since I know what I actually
WANT to feel, I know how to react to new situations in order to not
keep thinking about them for months and months after.

Though that took a while to learn, and doesn't work fully yet... ;-)

Regards,
Tim


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From: Sebastian H 
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 9 Feb 2003 13:12:15
Message: <3e4699ff$1@news.povray.org>
Rune wrote:
> Tim Nikias wrote:
> 
>>I know those times pretty well, as you can easily
>>read within the images of my last two years
> 
> 
> Yeah, I know. I always regarded you as being emotional in that same way,
> and I think we have some things in common...
> 
> 
>>and they'll pass.
> 
> 
> But that's the funny thing! I *know* they'll pass. My logic and common
> sense tells me so. However, feelings are not controlled by logic... They
> are not there to make sense, they just are. That is what makes them
> difficult to deal with, and it is also what makes them beautiful.
> 

Oh, that's so true...

Sebastian H.


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From: Xplo Eristotle
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 9 Feb 2003 23:06:30
Message: <3e472546@news.povray.org>
Rune wrote:
> A different kind of experiment...
> 
> (Yes, heavily post-processed...)

I'm far too bitter on this subject to say anything encouraging, like 
some of the other people here have.. but as far as the image itself 
goes, sweet job integrating yourself into the pic like that.

-Xplo


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 10 Feb 2003 11:17:27
Message: <3e47d097@news.povray.org>
Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> I'm far too bitter on this subject to say anything encouraging

I know the feeling... :(

Sometimes it just feels like life is laughing at you...

> but as far as the image itself goes, sweet job integrating
> yourself into the pic like that.

Thanks! It was a real hassle getting the perspective in the raytraced
image to match that of the photograph. The original photo is of me in
front of a mirror. I then removed everything but me and my reflection,
and made the reflection semitransparent. This was then put on top of the
raytraced image. Textured discs with no_image was used in the POV-Ray
scene to create the shadows under my feet, and in fact also the shadow
of the heart object. Really fast, since no area_lights were needed...

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From: Artis Rozentals
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 10 Feb 2003 20:43:24
Message: <m27kc77fsz.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> writes:

> Sometimes it just feels like life is laughing at you...

And it seems that it has a VERY weird sense of humor...

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From: Kruger
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 11 Feb 2003 00:59:05
Message: <3e489129@news.povray.org>
Marvelous!
Incredible the way you mixed yourself into a POV scene.  Of all things, I
would thing perspective would be the easiest of the challenges.

As far as the theme....been there...

Kruger


"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
news:3e4485d3@news.povray.org...
> A different kind of experiment...
>
> (Yes, heavily post-processed...)
>
> Rune
> --
> 3D images and anims, include files, tutorials and more:
> rune|vision:  http://runevision.com (updated Oct 19)
> POV-Ray Ring: http://webring.povray.co.uk
>
>
>


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 14 Feb 2003 17:45:24
Message: <3e4d7184$1@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
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| A different kind of experiment...
|

Good job, Rune. The illusion is incredible.

 -Shay


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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 14 Feb 2003 21:58:01
Message: <3e4dacb9@news.povray.org>
There's only one problem I can see with the image:  there's a little ghost
happening from where your image has been placed... you probably really need
to do another map to make the areas that are transparent, also void of any
diffuse and specular/phong highlight values - that should eliminate the
problem completely (though it's hardly visible anyway).

Also, you mentioned you had some trouble lining it up... as a pointer for
people that want to do some more of this kind of thing, set some marker dots
out, 3 or more on the same plane and one perpendicular to the plane (for
example, 3 dots at known positions on the floor, and one on the wall
vertically above one of the other dots).  This will help greatly when
working out the exact perspective and allows you to create a virtual set of
the market dots with which to align to the real dots.

Nice image :)  If you want to post-process it some more to try some
different effects, you could make it even more thematical by desaturating
everything on the front side of the mirror, or giving it a dark blue cast
(or dark blue but only in the lower end, i.e. raise the blue channel values
but only for the blues below 30 - this will give the entire image a cool
deep blue cast, which would contrast well with the heart's hot colour).

Lance.

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach
Date: 15 Feb 2003 07:29:41
Message: <3e4e32b5$1@news.povray.org>
Lance Birch wrote:
> There's only one problem I can see with the image:
> there's a little ghost happening from where your image
> has been placed... you probably really need to do
> another map to make the areas that are transparent,
> also void of any diffuse and specular/phong highlight
> values - that should eliminate the problem completely
> (though it's hardly visible anyway).

I'm not sure I understand this. I probably should know, but what exactly
does ghost mean in this context? And how is it related to diffuse and
highlights?

> set some marker dots out, 3 or more on the same plane
> and one perpendicular to the plane (for example, 3 dots
> at known positions on the floor, and one on the wall
> vertically above one of the other dots).  This will
> help greatly when working out the exact perspective
> and allows you to create a virtual set of the market
> dots with which to align to the real dots.

Oh, but I didn't need this, as the floor I was standing on had a
tile-like pattern, and the mirror had vertical edges. Plenty of
information to determine the exact perspective. The trouble was placing
the camera in the POV-Ray scene in a way so that the perspective in the
POV-Ray image would match exactly that in the photo. I had to fiddle not
only with location, look_at and angle, but also with skewing of the
camera (done with a matrix). Having so many camera variables to adjust
is the tricky part.

> giving it a dark blue cast (or dark blue but only in
> the lower end, i.e. raise the blue channel values but
> only for the blues below 30 - this will give the
> entire image a cool deep blue cast, which would
> contrast well with the heart's hot colour).

I'll try that. I think it'll work well. Thanks of the suggestion.

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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: Out of reach [crop attachment 13 KB]
Date: 15 Feb 2003 07:54:59
Message: <3e4e38a3@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
news:3e4e32b5$1@news.povray.org...
> Lance Birch wrote:
> > There's only one problem I can see with the image:
> > there's a little ghost happening from where your image
> > has been placed... you probably really need to do
> > another map to make the areas that are transparent,
> > also void of any diffuse and specular/phong highlight
> > values - that should eliminate the problem completely
> > (though it's hardly visible anyway).
>
> I'm not sure I understand this. I probably should know, but what exactly
> does ghost mean in this context? And how is it related to diffuse and
> highlights?

I've brightened part of the image so that you can see it.  It runs along the
entire image, so I assumed that it was the image you placed in, or... maybe
it isn't.  If it is, then the diffuse and highlights are what's causing it.
Even if the area is transparent, if it has any diffuse or specular finish
value, the light shining on it will make it show up lightly (just like the
highlight on glass).  If the image was simply post processed in, then I
don't know what would have caused it (perhaps not having a completely dense
mask).

> Oh, but I didn't need this, as the floor I was standing on had a
> tile-like pattern, and the mirror had vertical edges. Plenty of
> information to determine the exact perspective. The trouble was placing

Ah, well then, definitely no points required :)

> the camera in the POV-Ray scene in a way so that the perspective in the
> POV-Ray image would match exactly that in the photo. I had to fiddle not
> only with location, look_at and angle, but also with skewing of the
> camera (done with a matrix). Having so many camera variables to adjust
> is the tricky part.

Ah... I've been spoilt by interactive GUIs :)  MAX can actually do all of
that for you, too (open up the camera matcher and it'll work out all of the
camera's properties for you - then you can use the motion/camera tracker).

> > giving it a dark blue cast (or dark blue but only in
> > the lower end, i.e. raise the blue channel values but
> > only for the blues below 30 - this will give the
> > entire image a cool deep blue cast, which would
> > contrast well with the heart's hot colour).
>
> I'll try that. I think it'll work well. Thanks of the suggestion.

No problem :)  Anyway, it looks good how it is, but it's always worth
playing around with different things (unfortunately I get in to the trap of
playing with an image forever and never finishing it, heh).

Lance.

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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Out of reach [crop attachment 13 KB]
Date: 15 Feb 2003 15:27:40
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Lance Birch wrote:
> I've brightened part of the image so that you can see it.

Oh, that's not a ghost, it's simply the horizon of the floor plane. I
thought about avoiding it showing up that sharply, by using some fog in
the scene. I think I'll do that.

> If the image was simply post processed in, then I don't
> know what would have caused it (perhaps not having a
> completely dense mask).

For the record, the image is simply post processed in. No image_maps in
the scene.

> Ah... I've been spoilt by interactive GUIs :)  MAX can
> actually do all of that for you, too (open up the
> camera matcher and it'll work out all of the camera's
> properties for you - then you can use the motion/camera
> tracker).

Cheater!

> Anyway, it looks good how it is, but it's always worth
> playing around with different things (unfortunately I
> get in to the trap of playing with an image forever
> and never finishing it, heh).

Well, looking at your work, I'd say it seems to work. :)

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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: Out of reach [crop attachment 13 KB]
Date: 15 Feb 2003 21:13:23
Message: <3e4ef3c3@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
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<snip>
> Oh, that's not a ghost, it's simply the horizon of the floor plane. I
> thought about avoiding it showing up that sharply, by using some fog in
> the scene. I think I'll do that.

Ah :)  BAD horizon line!  Definitely use some distant fog :)

> For the record, the image is simply post processed in. No image_maps in
> the scene.

Fair 'nuff!

> Cheater!

Aww ;)

> Well, looking at your work, I'd say it seems to work. :)

It's also the reason I've released no new 3D work lately.  All of it has
been 2D.  *sigh*  heh :)

Lance.

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