Hey - that's interesting! Your colors look better than the colors in my 
image! I wonder, why.

What version of POV-Ray do you use, Nicolas?

Sven


"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> schrieb im 
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> Description from the scene file:
>
>> About: My persistence of the vision of a small ultra-light helicoper,
>> featuring a small engine and made of fiber glass (the case) and plexi
>> glass (for the canopy). Note the two conter-rotating rotors beside
>> each other.  This helicopter could carry, as concepted with this
>> file, one adult normally and probably another one in some cases, or
>> some light freight beside the pilot.
>
> Full credits go to Sven Littkowski, all I did was the 50-hour render :)
>

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> This heavy usage indeed lowers CPU life, but not enough to be an issue,

Significantly more of an issue is the extra amount of electricity you
chew through doing this.

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when you get lots of "undefined
or invalid # directive"-errors when programming in C++.
    -- Warp
(...I have discovered that Warp is quite correct about this.)

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> oh!  there are photons?!  *scrutinizes image*
> 
> yes, there seems there are photons after all:  they seem to show up in the
> ground just below the shiny reflective chopper fronts.  But problem is:  from
> the point-of-view chosen, it's hardly visible.  Luckly, the photon map is
> saved, and getting a close-up shot of the effect should be much easier.  It
> seems the only reason for the insane photon map build time is the high number
> of reflective geometries there.

Remember the statistics I posted before: the number of photons finally 
stored was quite low, 0.1% of the photons shot.

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Sven Littkowski escribió:
> Hey - that's interesting! Your colors look better than the colors in my 
> image! I wonder, why.
> 
> What version of POV-Ray do you use, Nicolas?
> 

3.6.1a

Note I disabled radiosity, that could be related... :)

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Yes, that might be it. I use the same version. Hmm, it looks better without 
radiosity.

I made a list of TO-DOs:
- Render again but without radiosity
- remove the interior to get a better canopy glass
- correct the rotor blade joints on the right rotors

The positive side effect with the first two points in that list is, that 
they will speed up the render time.

I would like to invite you all, to get my scene file and do your own 
textures on my little helichopper baby. Also, the entire chopper is a 
macro - you can animate it (doors, rotors, rotor angle)! Would you like? If 
I get a positive feedback, I will release my source code to the publicity 
(after the neccessary corrections are done). So: WHO WOULD LIEK TO GET THE 
HELICHOPPER SOURCECODE?

Sven



"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> schrieb im 
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>> Hey - that's interesting! Your colors look better than the colors in my 
>> image! I wonder, why.
>>
>> What version of POV-Ray do you use, Nicolas?
>>
>
> 3.6.1a
>
> Note I disabled radiosity, that could be related... :)

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