"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> Hi all, for the last couple of weeks I've been working on this scientifically
> accurate image depicting spatial relationships between the three critical
> proteins that comprise the human heart's molecular motor.
>
> This image is currently a candidate for the September 2012 cover of the journal
> Science (fingers crossed).
>
> Here are the four render passes that I used for this shot: ambient occlusion,
> subsurface translucency, Z-depth (for faux focal blur), and a standard radiosity
> render, along with the final composite of all four render passes.
>
> The red, green, and yellow/orange bits are all blobs. The springy orange
> connectors and big blue "heads" were modeled in Wings3d. The spaghettified tubes
> are random parametric sphere sweep meshes built by a POV-Ray macro and written
> to disc (and render oh-so-much faster than actual sphere_sweeps). The background
> is a height field made up of several of my old images all mashed together and
> rendered, then blurred mercilessly with Photoshop in the final comp.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> -------------------------------------------------
> www.McGregorFineArt.com

looks much better than a B&W electron microscope shot. :)

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