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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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and the other one
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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
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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
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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!
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> Skip
Me too - how did U do the rock? Isosurface?
--
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions
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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.
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Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
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> 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
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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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> > LightBeam wrote:
> >> Really impressive work ! I love the first version. Another great image
> >> for the hall of fame :-)
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> > I concur, that is a keeper!
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> > 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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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbrain com> 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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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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