The point about the SOW is that it has been said that everyone, when they first get their hands on Bryce - immediately they stick a shiny sphere over a water plane and press render.

S.O.W. = Sphere Over Water.

The trick however is to create something that is undeniably "a sphere", pretty much "over, under or through, water"  (or some surface with some sort of reflection) but to do something a bit different with it before pressing the render button.

So I was thinking, how about everybody trying to come up with some sort of twist on the S.O.W.?

Not compulsory, just have a play with it if you feel like it.

Here are a few examples:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1077757&member
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=976476&member

And it doesn't have to be exactly a sphere, here someone has taken the SOW concept and using metaballs, come up with this:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=672033

And...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=503015

sounds interesting where would we post them LOL

http://www.cgsphere.com/ <-- something like this? :-)

Quote - http://www.cgsphere.com/ <-- something like this? :-)

Interesting!!! Thanks for the welcome... :m_grin:

Quote - The point about the SOW is that it has been said that everyone, when they first get their hands on Bryce - immediately they stick a shiny sphere over a water plane and press render.

I have actually never, EVER done that. I must be a freak. :)

**SndCastie,
**Well, WIP's to this thread say, and finished renders post to your gallery and paste a link to them in this thread... how's that?

You could just post here if you like.  No need for the gallery if you don't want.  I've a feeling any of my SOW's wouldn't be good enough for the gallery - but as you can see from the links, some are.

**Rayraz,
**Possibly, possibly, but where's the water or similarly reflective substance?  And I should have said - comfy chairs will no doubt be ready and waiting for anyone who veers from the path of Bryce righteousness, courtesy of The Bryster.

Or anyone else who's got one handy....

**ThunderStone,
**Welcome.  Are you game then?

**aprilgem,
**Um... I don't think I have either, don't remember doing one anyway.  So maybe now's the time to try something?

Well... someone had to.

Lol

Um... your sow isn't very shiny, is it?  :tongue2:

Although I suppose... to be strictly accurate, that would make it a SSOW.

Ok I never did one either I started playing with terrains and such so this will be new to me LOL

and who says the pig isnt shiny on the inside?
also, who saysd the pig is female?

Rayraz,

Well if it's not a sow, what's it doing in the pic?  I'm sure that's what electroglyph said... isn't it?

(looks up)

Yup, dat's what he said alright...

You notice that the trotters are not really touching the water - that makes it a sow/SOW, not a SIW.

ROFL!

**SndCastie,

**Well go girl! Go!  Render away.

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**ThunderStone,
**Welcome.  Are you game then?

Yeah I'm game... As a matter of fact, I am going to upload the sphere over at the CGsphere. And a different one here of course, when I get both of them ready ...

When I first got poser I did UHIATWAH (Uncle Harry in a Temple with a Helmut) instead of the traditional NVIATWAS . . . as I recall he was lookin' for women ... but yes ... I did the spere thing with Bryce . . . I was so ashamed I never told anyone - until now.

I am trying to do one now.  Got an idea for a different reflective surface... just not sure what to do about the sphere part...

Electroglyph,

Oooh, lots of spheres!  Nice.  Now I've got to find out how you do that.

**SndCastie,

**Cor!  What an interesting take on this. Love the blue light on the water.

Electroglyph, LOL at least she has her clothes on; Yes, tell Fran that. 

SndCastie, I like that ! !

Thank you :O)

**SndCastie,
**How did you do the blue light? I mean how far above is it, how strong a light, what sort of blue did you set it to?, and of course the water mat will make a difference too...

It is  not a light it is a sky from Daz and the water is from Daz just took the fog off and brought the Haze down on it. Nothing else that is the way it turned out. These are presets  you get with Bryce and it is in the fantasy ones.

Nice one Sophies

Thank you  Sand Castie . Youre  were so nice to .)   "Sophie"

snd CASTIE . I hope you can forgive me for my bad English . I have broblems with strog medicine due to a bad reumathical illnes and i have a lot of brain-fog thet aqtually  not help me to write in foreign languages , its hard but i am doing best   "Sophie"

Not a problem :O)

How many bikermice does it take to screwup a lightglobe?? 

One bikermouse; many lightglobes!!  

Nice one Thunderstone love the mat you used

Whooo there bikermice it is the attack of the light globe's LOL good one.

Wooo! Lots of nice new SOWs.

**Sophies,
**Very nice, looks like you put a good deal of work into that, I especially like the ripples under the closest beachball.  might be nice to see a larger version, if you have one, as it's a bit hard to tell what the thing with the wing is, in this small image.

**SndCastie,
**I'll have to have a hunt through the fantasy skies, hadn't really looked at them much.

**ThunderStone,
**But those balls are definitely shiny, you can definitely see that they are reflecting their surroundings.  Oh, and there's water, so it fills all the requirements.  Great!

**bikermouse,

**Uho, I think they're coming to get me!!!  Arrrgghhhh!

Lol

Mine's not complex but I would decide to use IBL... so the dratted thing is still rendering, I wouldn't mind but I'm not convinced it'll be worth the wait.

Hi  Fran . The winged thingie is the Toon-Vulture from Daz . The water ripples are made in the terrain editor with a photoshop-filter .  The ground is a texture i made in DTE and applied to the default infinite ground plane . The water and the land is only one texture (One of my Experiments :) The bad thing is that i can' t find a way to control the reflections the way i want them in the DTE  ( I  don' t  want to have  reflections all over the place like they are now , i want to have them to show up only in the watery part of the texture but no such luck :(  I think this is why my new dual-core computer can ' t render this picture with shadows enabled in Bryce ( Reflections on the infinite plane AND shadows enabled at the same time seems to be a real killer :(  I can post the picture in my gallery  later today .             "Sophie"

Actually each S.O.W. is two spheres one inside the other. The outer one is slightly larger than the inner one and of different material. Then using the design as opacity map to expose the characteristics of the inner sphere. One can come up with some interesting designs. Been thinking of using fractals for the outer design to give a bejeweled effect.

Quest

Love the mats you used one these.

Quest

Nice job on those

Thanks, Fran... I got another one done that is posted over at 3Dcommune... Wasn't sure if I should post it here. But in any case here is the URL for it: http://www.3dcommune.com/3d/galview.mv?Bryce+chb0SucpY+1191562591

Hope this give new meaning to the sphere in the temple over water?

TS

I did the pig (sow) version a year or so ago, and it was shiny. Unfortunately, it wasn't very popular...;) so I removed it from the gallery. Same model as above, tho..;)

Quote - Thanks, Fran... I got another one done that is posted over at 3Dcommune... Wasn't sure if I should post it here. But in any case here is the URL for it: http://www.3dcommune.com/3d/galview.mv?Bryce+chb0SucpY+1191562591

Hope this give new meaning to the sphere in the temple over water?

TS

Fixed the link... now it should work.

Quote - http://www.cgsphere.com/ <-- something like this? :-)

How about this one? Done for the holidays... Xmas Balls... It'sstill SOW but with a twist... Sphere over frozen water (Snow is frozen water, isn't it?) I posted at CGsphere... Here's the link:

Xmas Balls

Enjoy one more fun... And while you're there, you might want to look at some of these other Spheres.. Some are IN the water, as well as out of the water.

TS

nice one ThunderStone

re: Posted Sun, Dec 2, 2007 4:59 pm 
Good sense of color and placement very cool!!

re: Posted Sun, Dec 2, 2007 2:15 pm
Man. you tryin' to scare everybody else off? Most exellent ! !

Am doing a series of spheres and posting them in the gallery here. Already posted the first one.
Sphere 1: Hard at Work.

Thanks for turning me on to CGsphere site.  Got some great inspiration and submitted a few only to be shot down by a rating of 5... Guess it's all depends on POV....

I am bummed but not totally... Starting a series of spheroid renders will probably lift me out of the rut...

I'll probably do a story line... NOT!

TS

Nice one indeed ThunderStone and just in time for the Holidays!

Quest

**ThunderStone,
**That's what I like to see, a different twist.  Excellent Xmas balls, and the woody... in metal... pushing the sphere, very nice idea.

Quest, yes I do remember those spheres, and I still like 'em.

Sphere1:hard at work = Sisyphus?[

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sisyphus.html](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sisyphus.html)

Quote - Sphere1:hard at work = Sisyphus?[

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sisyphus.html](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sisyphus.html)

We'll see in part 2: hard at work...

TS...
Gonna have to get me a sig to go with the moniker... :b_tonguewink:

Quest

Quest that is truely discusting . . . I mean it's so good it makes me wanna go into Bryce, pull every multirep trick I know including making paths and multireping along them (which BTW I think I learned either as Peter Sharp or Brycetech tuts?? ) and come up with something half as good !!! 

Quest , you are making the most beautiful spheres , i realy like them . More please  :-D

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1572408

Quest,

That's lovely, I really like the soft glowing look to the earth globe.

**Sophies,
**Thanks for putting that up, it is much easier to see in the larger form, I see now that you've actually got ripples under all the beachballs, nice.

One thing I would change (and actually there are some shadows) I would put a little bit of reflection onto the beachballs, they look a little flat as it is, and perhaps a touch of specular.