"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> "Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote in message
> > Ah yes, this begins to look good. The colors are a bit too *primary* to my
> > taste. You could try to use somewhat *off* reds, yellows, and blues; maybe
> > even a very tiny bit different for each piece of glass. A bit darker too.
> > Scale down the ambient too. Maybe a value around 0.5 will look nice. The
> > opacity is allright I think.
>
>     Here's the next one with AA and area_light on. Amazingly, this rendered
> in only 58 minutes. I've used 0.5 on the coloured glass for the ambient in
> this one, and diffused the glass colours by 25%. I'm not sure about it, so I
> think I'll try 0.75 to see what that looks like, but what do you think? Ok
> at 0.5?

Nice work.  Seems like the glass could use a bit more texture though.  I'd
expect the overall tone of the image to be softer and warmer for a lamp like
this.  Here's an example for reference:

http://styleglass.com/tiffanylamp.jpg

 - Ricky

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