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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Blog Topper
Date: 2 Oct 2006 12:55:57
Message: <4521449d@news.povray.org>
Not quite done yet.
Comments welcome


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 2 Oct 2006 14:49:10
Message: <45215f26$1@news.povray.org>
"Bryan Valencia" <pov### [at] spamgourmetcom> wrote in message 
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> Not quite done yet.
> Comments welcome

      Looking good to me!

       ~Steve~


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 2 Oct 2006 15:05:00
Message: <45216396.8090208@hotmail.com>
Bryan Valencia wrote:
> Not quite done yet.
I saw the image and read this as 'Not quite dome yet'.
There is probably a nice psychological explanation
for that.


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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 2 Oct 2006 15:11:39
Message: <4521646b$1@news.povray.org>
Bryan Valencia wrote:
> Not quite done yet.
> Comments welcome

I like it, though altogether (unless that's the style you're aiming 
for), it looks a little flat. The house-thingy has a nice highlight on 
the right, a soft blue highlight on the left, but inbetween, it's just a 
single color, no shading. To exagherate, the color is so "unshaded", 
that the straight pillar wall looks like its blending directly into the 
spheres. I'd do something about that.

The same goes for the background mountains, I'd prefer some more 
variance in color. And some realistic clouds, made with media... I know, 
altogether, its a lot to ask for that, but then I figure, since "Blog 
Topper" suggests you want to put it at the head of a website/blog, 
putting some time into it wouldn't harm. :-)

But, like I said, if that's the style your aiming for (more stylized 
than realistic), it looks like a good start. How about raising the 
resolution for the heightfield, I can see some edges...

Regards,
Tim

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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 3 Oct 2006 01:03:22
Message: <4521ef1a$1@news.povray.org>
High!

Nice so far... is it for a blog on some Islamic issues?

The barren desert hills in the background look good, but of course the 
thing to the left looking like a marabut (a sufi saint's tomb like 
oftenly seen in North Africa) is incomplete... what about a multi-staged 
pedestal and a crescent on top?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Transrapid (Yadgar) - 
http://home.arcor.de/yadgar/music/Transrapid.mp3


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 3 Oct 2006 03:07:23
Message: <45220c2b$1@news.povray.org>
"Tim Nikias" <JUS### [at] gmxnetWARE> schreef in bericht 
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>
> But, like I said, if that's the style your aiming for (more stylized than 
> realistic), it looks like a good start. How about raising the resolution 
> for the heightfield, I can see some edges...
>

...In addition, I suggest you use double_illuminate for the height_field, 
because some black artifacts appear from smoothing.

Otherwise, I like the mood.

Thomas


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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 4 Oct 2006 13:42:08
Message: <4523f270$1@news.povray.org>
Yeah the problem is that at that aspect ratio, I had to pull the camera
miles back and zoom in to correct the horrible parallax distortion.  Hence
"flatness".  I have been working with this a bit more.

Here is a scaled-down version of the current image.




"Tim Nikias" <JUS### [at] gmxnetWARE> wrote in message
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> Bryan Valencia wrote:
> > Not quite done yet.
> > Comments welcome
>
> I like it, though altogether (unless that's the style you're aiming
> for), it looks a little flat. The house-thingy has a nice highlight on
> the right, a soft blue highlight on the left, but inbetween, it's just a
> single color, no shading. To exagherate, the color is so "unshaded",
> that the straight pillar wall looks like its blending directly into the
> spheres. I'd do something about that.
>
> The same goes for the background mountains, I'd prefer some more
> variance in color. And some realistic clouds, made with media... I know,
> altogether, its a lot to ask for that, but then I figure, since "Blog
> Topper" suggests you want to put it at the head of a website/blog,
> putting some time into it wouldn't harm. :-)
>
> But, like I said, if that's the style your aiming for (more stylized
> than realistic), it looks like a good start. How about raising the
> resolution for the heightfield, I can see some edges...
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> -- 
> aka "Tim Nikias"
> Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>


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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 4 Oct 2006 14:09:45
Message: <4523f8e9@news.povray.org>
actually it's stylistically "the end of the world" - a place and time where
civilization end.

This for my blog, called "Letters from the End of Civilization"




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> High!
>
> Nice so far... is it for a blog on some Islamic issues?
>
> The barren desert hills in the background look good, but of course the
> thing to the left looking like a marabut (a sufi saint's tomb like
> oftenly seen in North Africa) is incomplete... what about a multi-staged
> pedestal and a crescent on top?
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>
> Now playing: Transrapid (Yadgar) -
> http://home.arcor.de/yadgar/music/Transrapid.mp3


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From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Subject: Re: Blog Topper
Date: 4 Oct 2006 14:15:58
Message: <4523fa5e$1@news.povray.org>
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Bryan Valencia wrote:
> Yeah the problem is that at that aspect ratio, I had to pull the camera
> miles back and zoom in to correct the horrible parallax distortion.  Hence
> "flatness".  I have been working with this a bit more.
> 
	Wouldn't a cylindrical camera fix that issue?

		Jerome
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