Need some images for front page

[dakiru]

[Doug Armand]

Oh really nice - and I'm not just saying that

Love the crystal balls - does the IOR increase as they go along? Great image for showing that if it is.

Is the light source you used that interesting emitter that you posted in the simple renderings thread?

[fused]

also a nice demonstration of indigos aperture diffraction. is this the real aperture diffraction (i like to call it "physical" ^^) or the post process one?

[pixie]

Oh really nice - and I'm not just saying that

Love the crystal balls - does the IOR increase as they go along? Great image for showing that if it is.

I can be wrong but it think it's due to angle between the light and the spheres, the further the greater the angle is and therefore the same ior behaves differently...

[pixie]

K I've PM'd you a 1k version

what about this one to show off DoF? this one is still baking but should be ready soon

Super!!!

[dakiru]

Doug Armand: thank you

The emitter in the "balls test" scene is an IES number 9 from the photometric folder, that comes with Blendigo 1.1.18 package.

Balls materials look like this:

default setting for all: specular, transparent, absorb type: RGB, Gain 1.00
changes from left to right:
[1]
IOR 50.00
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[2]
IOR 25.00
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[3]
IOR 10.00
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[4]
IOR 5.00
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[5]
IOR 3.00
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[6]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0000
[7]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0001
[8]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0010
[9]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 0.0100
[10]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 0.3000
[11]
IOR 1.50
Cauchy B coeff: 1.0000

[dakiru]

also a nice demonstration of indigos aperture diffraction. is this the real aperture diffraction (i like to call it "physical" ^^) or the post process one?

This is a post process one

[Doug Armand]

Thanks for sharing that info Dakiru

[Pibuz]

THERE ARE REALLY AWESOME WORKS HERE mates!
Congratulations to Doug and Dakiru for their efforts: excellent!

It seems these guys REALLY want a place in the front page , but they're completely worth it.

[dakiru]

Pibuz: Thanks, mate!

Doug Armand: Always welcome

fused: Here is the render with "real" aperture diffraction.

[fused]

wow, nice! but....

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how did you render it to 13766 spp that fast?

[dakiru]

wow, nice! but....

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how did you render it to 13766 spp that fast?

I don't know It took around two hours on Q9550 2.83 GHz Vista x64...

[zeitmeister]

Doug, these renders are awesome!

[Doug Armand]

Doug, these renders are awesome!

Thanks Zeitmeister and thanks to anyone else who has commented on my work

Right I'm off again for another week or so - have fun and get rendering so I have new stuff to see when I get back!

[Doug Armand]

K finally finished this one:

D_ARMAND_CGI_01092009.jpg (30.87 KiB) Viewed 3117 times

Benn/Ono - still want a hi-res version?