>> This image is actually a >> rop of a much larger image at 4096x3072 pixels. Then >> I cropped out the >> 1600x1200 section here and that bland column really >> sticks out. > > How about a widescreen 1920x1200 version to fit natively on Sun's largest > LCD? Consideration would then have to be made for different aspect ratio > displays cropped content.
OKay .. I'll see if I can get that for you. I hit a snag however, I have to move the logo and text around. Or get rid of it entirely because its intrusive and serves little purpose really. I tried to embed the logo into the glass object but that resulted in a bizillion refracted and twisted versions all over the place in it. real ugly. I tried different refractive indexes also and some were just weird looking. I am not using photon effects or the cration of caustics in the transmission thus there is no real sparkle. I wanted to try some experiments with those effects but I need a teraflop grid to get any reasonable results fast enough to make changes. > Also, what about having the transparency object much brighter, luminescent, > and more diamond-like in material? I did try a slight luminescent with some media hanging in the air but I end up with another gawdy ugly thing with light beams flying out of it. > Frankly, the current lighting doesn't > yet "reflect" the bright, clean, and exceptionally strong nature of Solaris. > ;) Ah yes .. I got some feedback to that effect and I was working to put some "real" texture on the surrounding structure. > What program did you render this with? Blender? http://www.blender.org Whoa ! er .. no . Blender looks to be for real artists : http://download.blender.org/ED/cover.jpg No I used POVRay because I have been using it for about a decade now. More or less. If one has ample CPU horsepower and lots of time to fiddle with effects then you can get very real looking renders : http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2006-02-28/frznfire.jpg > Would you consider open-sourcing your data file for further development > and/or collaboration? Sure ! But you won't be happy :-\ ( or maybe you will ) I was plowing along at high speed and making this change and making that change and I would save intermittent images and sometimes I would run a higer res test but I was not _really_ diligent enough with aving the source scene file and I have made changes and now I can not get back to that precise image result. So I have plowed on towards making the central object no long made out of glass. Now its made out of stars in space ! I will run this last render and then post the POV file aswell as a sample image and then maybe we can work together on it. Or trash it entirely and start over :-) either way is fun ... by the way .. just wanted to point out that we don't need t ostick to POVRay renders and people could just walk outside and take a photograph and then stick a logo on it. I guess. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
