POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Strange Chairs : Re: Strange Chairs Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:13:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange Chairs  
From: Aaron Gillies
Date: 10 Mar 2011 08:05:00
Message: <web.4d78cb8414450c3a9d3beec70@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Aaron Gillies" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > These are the days of strange chairs.
> >
> > Objects are all CSG:  unions of superellipsoids and boxes.
> >
> > Green wood texture is procedural.  Cushion texture uses an image map.
> > Illumination by two spotlights.  Focal blur.
>
> Looks very nice.
>
> One point of advice, it is very easy to notice that each instance of the chair
> is an identical copy.  Since the green wood is procedural, then add some random
> offset to each instance so that each chair isn't identical.  For the chair
> cushions, it is obvious as well, but because it is an image map, you may not be
> able to add much randomness to them, unless the image map is somewhat larger
> than what you are using on the cushions.
>
> -tgq

Good idea!


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