Render time, four hours and forty-two minutes. I then added some cheap 
luminous bloom in Gimp.

For those who have lives and haven't been following along :-) the image 
is inspired by the Systema Metropolis short story here:
http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/13/systema-metropolis/

Anyway, I've built more of a scene so that there's a little context to 
judge the object by. I've also decided that the texturing I had before 
was distracting, and wouldn't really be visible with the amount of glare 
in the scene. So I set the texture to {color rgb 1} and turned off 
ambient light.

Any reactions? :-)

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

If we were told to parse starting *after* the supplied String, then do 
what we need to do to indicate pilot error.
     -- Laird Nelson, blogging on Java programming

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"William Tracy" <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote in message 
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> Render time, four hours and forty-two minutes. I then added some cheap
> luminous bloom in Gimp.
>
> For those who have lives and haven't been following along :-) the image
> is inspired by the Systema Metropolis short story here:
> http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/13/systema-metropolis/
>
> Anyway, I've built more of a scene so that there's a little context to
> judge the object by. I've also decided that the texturing I had before
> was distracting, and wouldn't really be visible with the amount of glare
> in the scene. So I set the texture to {color rgb 1} and turned off
> ambient light.
>
> Any reactions? :-)
>
> -- 
> William Tracy
> afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu
>
> If we were told to parse starting *after* the supplied String, then do
> what we need to do to indicate pilot error.
>     -- Laird Nelson, blogging on Java programming
>

Any reactions?!?!   WOW!!!  was my first one :)

Cheers Dre

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William Tracy napsal(a):
> Render time, four hours and forty-two minutes. I then added some cheap 
> luminous bloom in Gimp.
> 
> For those who have lives and haven't been following along :-) the image 
> is inspired by the Systema Metropolis short story here:
> http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/13/systema-metropolis/
> 
> Anyway, I've built more of a scene so that there's a little context to 
> judge the object by. I've also decided that the texturing I had before 
> was distracting, and wouldn't really be visible with the amount of glare 
> in the scene. So I set the texture to {color rgb 1} and turned off 
> ambient light.
> 
> Any reactions? :-)
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
When I first saw the rays in front of the body, my first thought was "is 
it Gouraud shaded???"
:-)

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Hmmm... I don't know. I think you should use some original texturing on G. 
gigas because it now appears as something unfinished. I think the texture 
will be visible on the legs in particular.

I like the glare, though. Early morning. Perhaps the light could be a bit 
more yellowish?

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> Hmmm... I don't know. I think you should use some original texturing on G.
> gigas because it now appears as something unfinished. I think the texture
> will be visible on the legs in particular.
>
> I like the glare, though. Early morning. Perhaps the light could be a bit
> more yellowish?
>
> Thomas

Good job, much better than the last one.  Now I know what I'm looking at, and
the trees give it perspective and scale.  Also, thanks for the link to the
story; before I had no idea what this was all about.

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Hmmm... I don't know. I think you should use some original texturing on G. 
> gigas because it now appears as something unfinished. I think the texture 
> will be visible on the legs in particular.

I was starting to go with the notion that the texturing wouldn't be 
visible with that level of glare.

 From a technical standpoint, turning on ambient made the trees look 
funny (the bark had one--flat--texture, and the leaves had another--also 
flat--texture). I think I need to add more lights instead, and tell 
Povray not to make those lights interact with the media.

I'm still thinking about it; if I do bring textures back, they need to 
be a lot more subtle than before, I think.

> I like the glare, though. Early morning. Perhaps the light could be a bit 
> more yellowish?

I'm with you on that--I'll have to fiddle some more.

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

(09:43:00 PM) Urban[0]: strange. bananas smell like bubble gum and my 
saliva tastes like lemons.

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