Alchemy II wip

[Erik Heyninck]

we're all talking to keep the conversation alive (Brian Eno)

Still experimenting with forms and textures. You now see some red pâte de verre, the spiral that will be inside a Liebig cooler (dirtied with jodide or bromide) and the flask with the pyro inside.

take care,

Heliogabalus Theophrastus Bombastus von H Transmutania, aka Henius the Genius.

[Erik Heyninck]

we're all talking to keep the conversation alive (Brian Eno)

Still experimenting with forms and textures. You now see some red pâte de verre, the spiral that will be inside a Liebig cooler (dirtied with jodide or bromide) and the flask with the pyro inside.

take care,

Heliogabalus Theophrastus Bombastus von H Transmutania, aka Henius the Genius.

[Gaussian]

Great to see what this program can do!
A company that also listens to what users have to say and that's not something that we experience very often.

Nice work Erik [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[Gary David Bouton]

Suggestion, Erik?

I'd like to see the coil with less of a reflective material, as it reflects on reflections on reflections on reflections, being a coil.

Shadows, too?


Great work, pal.

Gare

[s.winders]

Cool [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]


Maybe a dusty wooden table and a brass coil Erik..with sahdows [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]



If Pyro is dragging down your render times,accck Pyro always drags down render times....use an omni light,set light to visible and turn off generate light.Use a nice orange color and crank brightness to about 230 or there abouts,set noise to wavy turbulence and add a slice of lemon and you are done.


Stu.

[Erik Heyninck]

Thanks for the comments...
These are in fact only elements of something that's to big to solve in one time for me.
I did put on the soft shadows for the coil, yet I don't see them on the floor. Perhaps I should try hard shadows? Fact is that I had to turn down the lights (all three lights are coloured). As for the reflection: there is less reflection than you suppose there is because I added spectral shader to the colour of the highlight and used a coloured material for the coil itself. The reflection is also a rather coloured gradient because I wanted this yellowish silvery shine that's left behind by bromide gas. I also put a spot on the coil.
I'll try to make it less reflective though beacause it looks a bit like plastic foil (coloured cellophane). Can only get better, and we post to get advise.
As for the render time: less than fifteen minutes with pyro and the coil on my PIII800 machine with 390MB SDRam free (22 processes running).