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Twisted glass thingy

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:51 am
by sprocket
Hello all!
I rendered this a few weeks back just before I went away on holiday, so it isn't cooked quite as long as I'd like at full res... well I'm satisfied for now :?

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Anyway, full res was 1280x1024 which is still noisy grrrr :twisted:
so I scaled down.. :cry: but I like this result as its straight from Indigo (apart from borders/text/scaling) ie no noise removal needed at this size (for my taste anyway :D )

Cooked 53 hours & 40 minutes, up to 2275 mutations/pixel at full res (not quite enough in this case, but the caustics came out nice finally :D )

Thanks for looking, hope you like it!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:53 am
by Kosmokrator
excellent man!very good use of dof!nice idea! :) :wink:

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:57 pm
by cooler_inc
I like it :)

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:02 pm
by OnoSendai
Gorgeous, great DOF and caustics

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:39 pm
by Maluminas
Very nice! How did you model such a shape?

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:28 am
by sprocket
Thanks for your kind comments everyone! :D :D :D :D

@ Maluminas:
easy to model but it took me a while to figure out!
Any program that you can get a spiral path with and then extrude along that path is good.
That is the easy way, I think you could also do it with array tools in some progs to get a spiral, also it's called a 'spring' tool sometimes I think.
The hard way would be to extrude a shape manually, though you could setup a macro if you know the angles you want :?
After that it's a piece of cake - just a matter of rotating all the parts into place and cutting and joining those that you want together. No maths or anything, because they're springs its just a load of 90degree rotations to get them aligned.

looong explanation :shock: :D doh! anyways hope that helps!

EDITEDIT: oooeps why is it in the gallery twice? not that I mind lol!
If I post something on the forum should I avoid putting it in the 'new images upload' ??
sorry I think thats my fault.. :? :oops:

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:28 pm
by manitwo
it looks soo real :o :o