POV-Ray hall of fame: "The Accident"

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:52 pm

Awesome!

http://www.povray.org/community/hof/acc ... 0x1600.php

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:05 pm

OH MY GOD! I wonder how long that took to make.

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:10 pm

A good case of a picture speaking a thousands words...

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:18 pm

More words: (

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My personal favorite:

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:10 am

wow, that stuff is getting more and more real every time I see it.
Love the "Mc Intosh" that's one good looking amplifier (probably sounds nice too)

and the one above that is awesome!

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Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:14 am

That poor lonely little Damselfly[1]... *sniff* With no one to love...

Royston

[1] might be a dragonfly but looks a bit diddy

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:15 pm

I think I have a crush on the teacher.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:55 pm

Gilles did foresee this and accordingly rendered your shadow (peeking through the window)

cheers, Tom

amazing stuff

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:34 am

Now we're talking bout POV-Ray I feel I have to share with you these two images I did back in '96.

Cheers,
Rob

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:55 pm

Cool!

Hey Astroman, did you notice the bird on the top of the trafic pole in the last picture? What do you think about it?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:09 pm

yeah, I noticed it almost immediately - a raven kind of bird. I dunno how they behave in US cities, but here they'd stay away from such a scenery.
They prefer to come early in the morning to pick up their share from civilization - quick learners...
But the lamp pole left to the bird is a mechanically absurd construction

The steam is missing from the cars, but aside from that it's stunningly realistic, the dude is really talented.

I like the XFrog stuff a lot - didn't know such a specialized tool exists

btw regarding the 'traffic jam' - do you know the video clip to 'Scratched' by Etienne de Crecy (from the Tempovision album) ?
It ends with a similiar scene and was rendered by his bro on a regular PC.
Of course not that detailed, as it's a movie, but an amazing result for the applied (simple) technology.

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:23 pm

ok, now the cat in the top of the machine scenerie

there's a long tradition that link cats to whichcraft somehow, at least they're supposed to spell little good

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:37 pm

in case you haven't yet checked it - there's a collection of stories between the pictures, called the 'book of beginnings' because the stories just stop at some point, no ending

very

http://www.oyonale.com/ldc/english/index.htm

cheers, Tom

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Post by **hubird** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:48 pm

I see..I didn't check, thanks

Escher would have loved this, I do for sure, it's top

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:38 am

Rob van Berkel wrote:
Now we're talking bout POV-Ray I feel I have to share with you these two images I did back in '96.

Wow!

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:44 pm

Nice stuff Rob =P.

Here's an excerpt of something I'm thinkering with in POVRay, called affectionately "Kraken". Made up of 400k spheres, altho not all of them are visible in this shot =P. Not the best algo either, the tentacles in the middle are a bit too linear, but gives a pretty good idea still =P.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:03 am

Impressive composition symbiote! I like it a lot! Talking numbers and figures, the saturn-ish image has 15000 rocks in its rings, consisting of 6 different rock-forms. The distribution of the rocks conforms to the gravitational laws, with a little bit of randomnisation used.

The starfield in the background contains roughly 5000 stars, and is astronomically correct with respect to position, brightness and color of the stars. The little cluster of stars visible just above the upper right of the rings is pleiades, the stars a bit to the left of pleiades (in the little hole in the ring) is Taurus.

The surface of the moon was done in fractint, an old dos-program.
All took about a week to render on my PC back then (can't recall what CPU i used... P2/266 or Celeron/450.

The glass was done in sPatch and took weeks to render. the caustics and refraction brought rendering down to less than one pixel per second....

I haven't done a lot lateley with povray (except generating star-maps for astronomical observations), bur seeing this enthousiasm here motivates me to spend some time with POV again

Cheers,
Rob

Post by **hubird** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:51 am

Rob, my compliments with your results, I was asking myself, is working with POV that easy, or are you so good

Q.: are you sure about the tile perspective, or is it me that it seems to be front/backward-negative, if you know what I mean

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:53 am

@hubird: you're right 'bout the tile-perspective, it was something I couldn't get right. Camera-possibilities were more limited then (as was my knowledge), than they are now in POV. It appears as if the upper left part of the scene is not part of the scene anymore. It was one of my first compositions, and apart from mastering a basic POV knowledge I really strugled with composition in general. But it was a nice starter. Glass is a real nice material to use in a raytracer, simple compositions very quickly turn into photorealistic images.
And to answer your question, is POV easy... it's a matter of placing objects or combinations of objects in a virtual 3D space (xyz coordinates), assign textures to them, add one ore more lights and then place your camera

Doesn't sound difficult at all!
In fact it is not difficult, but describing everything in a script-like language in a textfile can be a lot of work. There exist some CAD-like programs to create your 3D scene's but I never got used to them. I preferred imagining the result in my head, translate it into objects and positions, and then write them down in the POV sourcefile.
To assist in creating the scene-file, I wrote some simple C-programs to distribute objects in space (the rocks of saturn-rings) and made some POV scripts to generate rocks and moons etc.

Give it a try, it's free

Cheers,
Rob

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