"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> schreef in bericht
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> You know I'm really starting to get into this minimalism thing. This
> came to me today at work (working on a saturday, not a good thing).
>
> Anyway this is my attempt at proper minimalism, taking advantage of the
> ray-traced medium to make something too perfect to really be built. It's
> loosely inspired by my love of cars and driving, and architecture too.
>
> The fun thing with this is that I keep tweaking the numbers and thinking
> about the "meaning" I want to convey, in a source file that's got only 9
> lines of code! :)
>
> Tek
>
This is very much in the direction I think about raytraced minimalism!!!

Well done! Don't change this too much, just a little bit on the textures
only.

Thomas

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Tek <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> You know I'm really starting to get into this minimalism thing. This
> came to me today at work (working on a saturday, not a good thing).
>
> Anyway this is my attempt at proper minimalism, taking advantage of the
> ray-traced medium to make something too perfect to really be built. It's
> loosely inspired by my love of cars and driving, and architecture too.
>
> The fun thing with this is that I keep tweaking the numbers and thinking
> about the "meaning" I want to convey, in a source file that's got only 9
> lines of code! :)
>
> Tek

I think this doesn't need any change at all! It stunning, it made my chin
fall on my desk when i saw it. It's truly perfect. No need for textures IMO
with this kind of lighting. This is the best one i've seen yet in this
group.

Keep on posting these :)

lenx

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Thanks for the nice replies, here's a wallpaper sized version for those 
who want it :)

Think I need slightly higher radiosity settings.

Also, Lenx mentioned lighting. It's all done with radiosity and a 
brighter-than-white sky_sphere:
sky_sphere { pigment { gradient x scale 2 translate -1 colour_map { [0 
rgb <3,2,1>][1 rgb <1,2,3>] } } }

Regarding textures, there's a slightly bumpy normal but it doesn't seem 
to be doing anything, I'm gonna play with it a bit but don't worry Lenx, 
I ain't planning on doing anything other than the most subtle of textures.

Tek

Tek wrote:
> You know I'm really starting to get into this minimalism thing. This 
> came to me today at work (working on a saturday, not a good thing).
> 
> Anyway this is my attempt at proper minimalism, taking advantage of the 
> ray-traced medium to make something too perfect to really be built. It's 
> loosely inspired by my love of cars and driving, and architecture too.
> 
> The fun thing with this is that I keep tweaking the numbers and thinking 
> about the "meaning" I want to convey, in a source file that's got only 9 
> lines of code! :)
> 
> Tek
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

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Tek wrote:
> ...  in a source file that's got only 9
> lines of code! :)

I was thinking similarly that pov-minimalism might include the 
complexity of the source file as much as the final image ..

Looks fantastic!

Cheers!
Rick Measham

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Tek wrote:

Man, you're on a roll.

Interestingly, I wonder how much of a "look" I would have given this 
image without its tie-in to the raytraced minimalism problem.  As such 
it is brilliant. Beyond that it is beautiful. But would I have noticed? 
  No matter I guess because I am noticing now. I particularily like the 
"weight" of that black shadow across the top.

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Incredible.


-s
5TF!

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stm31415 wrote:
> Incredible.
> 
becaaause...?

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> stm31415 wrote:
> > Incredible.
> >
> becaaause...?

he's speechless ;)

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Lenx wrote:
> Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> 
>>stm31415 wrote:
>>
>>>Incredible.
>>>
>>
>>becaaause...?
> 
> 
> he's speechless ;)
> 
incredulous too, apparently, but maybe we can get him to speak

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a symphony in
minimal color, line, form
it has no better.



-s
5TF!

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