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[Mor4us]

Hi guys,
this is my contest entry on a german C4d board, topic was to show sth really small.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to submit Indigo version on technical issues (my fault) so i had to submit a vray rendered version as final.
Images look quite similar but i definetly prefer the Indigo version: so here it is!

Hope you like it, any kind of tips and tricks are welcome!
best regards


*edited*
attached 2 wires just for fun
250million spheres

[lycium]

Took a lot of rendering! The final came out really nicely, top work mate

[pixie]

It's turtles, all the way down! Congrats, that's a nice render you've got here.

[Voytech]

That looks great! How long did it take to render (and on what)?

[lycium]

I left it to render most of a weekend on two spare i7s at the Glare office; the strong DOF was pretty difficult to render clean, especially with the specular water bubbles.

[Voytech]

I left it to render most of a weekend on two spare i7s at the Glare office; the strong DOF was pretty difficult to render clean, especially with the specular water bubbles.

Straight BiDir I'm guessing?

[lycium]

Nope, bidir with much improved experimental MLT.

[Oscar J]

Nope, bidir with much improved experimental MLT.

Ooh! When are we getting it?

[lycium]

After Indigo 3.6 Stable release. It's working well but needs some raw speed optimisation to finish the job

[Voytech]

After Indigo 3.6 Stable release. It's working well but needs some raw speed optimisation to finish the job

Sweet. MLT seems to be a very universal method for rendering complex scenes. Happy to see it getting improvements.

[CTZn]

After Indigo 3.6 Stable release. It's working well but needs some raw speed optimisation to finish the job

Sweet. MLT seems to be a very universal method for rendering complex scenes. Happy to see it getting improvements.

same here, it's a nice initiative !

[lape]

great! how did you model this? looks like a mandelbrot set

[Mor4us]

I tried to manage to create the shape with mograph turtle system first, but unfortunately i didn't manage to create it in a spherical or custom shape. In the end it worked out really well with xfrog plugin wich offers a solution for spherical phyllotaxis.