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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 14 Nov 2005 11:30:01
Message: <web.4378ba74db85899d731f01d10@news.povray.org>
What ho chaps

Here's my final (for now) take on Escher's Double Planetoid. Changes since
the last post (some time ago now) are not massive but make a difference -
I've added a background, and people wandering the balconies. The second
image is an attempt to portray what the whole entity might look like if it
wandered into a raincloud. Both images rendered almost prohibitively slowly
on my ailing ~1GHz office machine (about 5 days solid for the daylight
version and just over 6 weeks for the overcast version, rendering nights
and weekends only), so I shall have to find some more processing power if I
want to take this further - I've got 3 fisheye views from the balconies set
up ready to go as well.

I've been staring at this WIP for so long that I honestly can't tell if it
looks good any more! :)

Anyway, as always, comments and suggestions welcome.

Bill


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 14 Nov 2005 11:35:01
Message: <web.4378bbc4fc0a4815731f01d10@news.povray.org>
and the other one


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From: LightBeam
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 14 Nov 2005 13:45:37
Message: <4378db51$1@news.povray.org>
Really impressive work ! I love the first version. Another great image 
for the hall of fame :-)


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From: Skip Talbot
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 14 Nov 2005 14:43:54
Message: <4378e8fa@news.povray.org>
LightBeam wrote:
> Really impressive work ! I love the first version. Another great image 
> for the hall of fame :-)

I concur, that is a keeper!

Skip


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From: Stefan Viljoen
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 00:47:42
Message: <4379767d@news.povray.org>
Skip Talbot spake:

> LightBeam wrote:
>> Really impressive work ! I love the first version. Another great image
>> for the hall of fame :-)
> 
> I concur, that is a keeper!
> 
> Skip

Me too - how did U do the rock? Isosurface?

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 03:43:36
Message: <43799fb8@news.povray.org>
That's so pretty. Only criticism is that it would look better if you just 
keep adding details to it! But it's gorgeous anyway.

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:web.4378ba74db85899d731f01d10@news.povray.org...
> What ho chaps
>
> Here's my final (for now) take on Escher's Double Planetoid. Changes since
> the last post (some time ago now) are not massive but make a difference -
> I've added a background, and people wandering the balconies. The second
> image is an attempt to portray what the whole entity might look like if it
> wandered into a raincloud. Both images rendered almost prohibitively 
> slowly
> on my ailing ~1GHz office machine (about 5 days solid for the daylight
> version and just over 6 weeks for the overcast version, rendering nights
> and weekends only), so I shall have to find some more processing power if 
> I
> want to take this further - I've got 3 fisheye views from the balconies 
> set
> up ready to go as well.
>
> I've been staring at this WIP for so long that I honestly can't tell if it
> looks good any more! :)
>
> Anyway, as always, comments and suggestions welcome.
>
> Bill
>


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 03:56:53
Message: <4379a2d5@news.povray.org>
Both are very impressive, although I prefer the first one.
One wonders what would happen if somebody would lower him(her)self to the
other planetoid....

Thomas


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 05:25:01
Message: <web.4379b760fc0a4815731f01d10@news.povray.org>
> > LightBeam wrote:
> >> Really impressive work ! I love the first version. Another great image
> >> for the hall of fame :-)
> >
> > I concur, that is a keeper!
> >
> > Skip

Thank you both! That means a lot.

Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@<removethis>polard.com> wrote:
> Me too - how did U do the rock? Isosurface?

Yup. Four planes blobbed together (thanks to Mike Williams for that), with a
large-scale agate and small-scale granite added in for the crevasses and
surface roughness respectively. It's really slow to render because the
resulting max_gradient is almost 24,000!

Bill

PS I, too, favour the first version. But once I'd started rendering the
second, it became a matter of principle...!


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 05:35:01
Message: <web.4379b9a9fc0a4815731f01d10@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> That's so pretty. Only criticism is that it would look better if you just
> keep adding details to it! But it's gorgeous anyway.

Always true! I had all sorts of details in mind but it was getting
increasingly tedious placing objects using tetrahedral polar coordinates
(if there is such a thing!).

Perhaps one day I'll come back and do some proper greebling (what a word!).

Bill


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From: Paolo Gibellini
Subject: Re: Double Planetoid final (probably...)
Date: 15 Nov 2005 06:41:14
Message: <4379c95a$1@news.povray.org>
Really impressive!
Is so... vital that I'm expecting to see some little birds flying and
perhaps some water somewhere.
Compliments!
;-)
Paolo

> What ho chaps
>
> Here's my final (for now) take on Escher's Double Planetoid. Changes since
> the last post (some time ago now) are not massive but make a difference -
> I've added a background, and people wandering the balconies.


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