Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> 
>   I was tempted to do it with my main reference pic:
> 
>   http://home.att.net/~texhwyman/g_imgs/autobahn2b.jpg

So it is supposed to be a German 'Autobahn' - a few notes on realism there:

- the white strip at the outer (right) side of the road seperating it 
from the 'Standstreifen' usually is much broader than the other 
interrupted strips.

- those white (plastic) posts on the side of the road have the black 
strip at the top going upward from inner to outer side.

- the trees are quite large and no german road authority would allow 
such large and old trees to grow that near to a highway. ;-)

Apart from that great image of course.

Christoph

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"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
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> Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> > My first reaction: "haha, very funny"
> > My second reaction: "ah, no, he probably just added his cars to this photo"
> > My third reaction: "OMG! this *isn't* a photo ?!?"
>
>    I was tempted to do it with my main reference pic:
>
>    http://home.att.net/~texhwyman/g_imgs/autobahn2b.jpg
>
>    but I've not experience integrating renders with photos...

Well, for something like that, it's not that hard: the road can be just a plane
with the image projection_map'ed onto it:

//projection_map
 #declare Pigment=function {pigment {image_map {jpg "autobahn2b.jpg" interpolate
2 } translate -.5}}
  // perspectiveprojection: Px=x/z, Py=y/z, Pz=0
 #declare Projection_pigment =
   pigment {
      average
      pigment_map {
         [function{Pigment(x/z,y/z,0).red} color_map {[0,rgb 0][1,red 4]}]
         [function{Pigment(x/z,y/z,0).green} color_map {[0,rgb 0][1,green 4]}]
         [function{Pigment(x/z,y/z,0).blue} color_map {[0,rgb 0][1,blue 4]}]
         [function{Pigment(x/z,y/z,0).transmit}color_map {[0,rgb 0][1,transmit
4 ]}]
      }
   }

  plane {y,0
  texture {
   pigment {Projection_pigment}
   finish {ambient .5 diffuse .5 brilliance 2}
   scale <4/3,1,1>
   Reorient_Trans(z, camera_look_at-camera_location)
   translate camera_location
  }


that should do the trick.

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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OUTSTANDING!!!

just a question, but pavement textures are procedurals or image_maps?

it's defenitely not a spanish nor italian highway, it's not messy enough :-)

very good job!

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"Stefano Tessarin" <s.t### [at] tinit> wrote in message
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>
> OUTSTANDING!!!
>
> just a question, but pavement textures are procedurals or image_maps?

Knowing Jaime, it's probably a proceduralized image_map:
http://ignorancia.org/tech_page.php?image=23&db=tips

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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Stephen wrote:


> faculties any credit :-)
> 
I think it is mostly the foreground trees that give it away. It is not 
that the trees aren't believable,
  it is that they are identifyable raytraced tree "species".
  That and a certain regularity to the general "randomness"  and
perhaps some flaws introduced by photography itself.  But suppose the 
history of art had proceeded directly from painting to raytracing and 
photography had never existed?

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Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> Still playing with my Wings3D cars... 

Oddly, I've never been attracted to cars, never have owned one, never 
painted one, only modelled one once and it was barely an offhand four 
hour shot at it.  But I *love* highways.  And highway scenes.  I used to 
hitch-hike extensively when I was young.  And the poetry and drama 
intrinsic to highway scenes always crowded my imagination. The tensions 
of mundanity and modernity, engagement and alienation.  It is in Gilles 
work a lot also of course.

Very interesting subject from a raytracing point of view too.  All the 
regularity of the engineering versus the randomness of the texturing.

truck donations accepted! :)

Quick joke, but actually a pretty cool idea.  And, with all the car 
modelling that goes on, it is not something that has ever been done that 
I know of.  ( althought no doubt I'd be that last *to* know )

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Loki wrote:
> It's a sweet pic, no doubt about it.
> 
> A point on composition though.  The symmetry of the road, signs and so on is
> very eyecatching.  The use of converging lines in film is common, to draw
> the eye to the point of interest.  My only criticism here is that there is
> nothing at the convergence in this pic - the eye is being drawn to an empty
> point in the distance, which is a distraction from the nice detail in the
> foreground.  Unless you plan to put something in the deep background where
> the perspective converges I'd suggest moving the camera to destroy the
> symmetry, allowing more focus on the detail - perhaps lower and off-centre
> to give a closer view of a car.  You could maybe place the camera on the
> left carriageway say, and place a car in the right-hand-lane of it (as we
> look at the scene) so that the strong lines of the central reservation are
> obscured a little by it.
>

I am not sure I agree,  While other angles for the shot may well get 
some  fruitful results, there are some great compositional elements at 
play here.  Not just the symmetry you mention, but the rectilinearity 
with the picture plane of the signs, wires, and shadows of the wires, 
that tease the eye in a subtle way.  As far as what it at the 
convergence point, I think there is some very interesting things, or 
themes that are interesting to me at least.  That is the sense of detail 
that is barely perceptible and therefore puzzling to the mind.  I try to 
identify the nature the structure of what appears to be a distant span 
of some sort.  We always gaze toward the horizon a try to discern the 
most distant of details.  It is often key to our survival.

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Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
>

I knew there was going to be something crazy in here when I saw the 
unread post count. I wasn't disappointed. You are leading the charge in 
this community, of more and more technically advanced use of free software.

Are the trucks in this image not yours? If you're looking for 
suggestions, I think the Isuzus are beautiful. They're models are ELF, 
FORWARD, and GIGA. Here's a FORWARD made into a firetruck. COOOOL.
http://www.geocities.jp/fd_iwate/tank2.htm

  -Shay

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Stephen wrote:


> faculties any credit :-)

The center of the road (between different-way lanes, I mean) somehow 
doesn't look photorealistic. Maybe it's too perfect - the fences are 
totally straight, theier posts are all in nice line etc.

But noticing that AFTER I realized that the pic is traced, it still 
didn't keep me wondering which one of cars actually is added to the 
photo :p.

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"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
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> Still playing with my Wings3D cars... truck donations accepted! :)
>
> --
> Jaime
>

excellent. my only slightest criticism is that the blue signs look like they
are lighted differently from the rest of the scene. I don't know how to
explain it other than, it looks like they were cut and pasted in from a
different but similar scene.

the shrubs on the median between the two sides of the road look excellent

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