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I took some photos of smoke comeing out of a smoke stack and just wonder if you like to look at it.

I know bryce make smoke too and some times I look at as it comes out of a chimmy and wonder how the wind would play a part of the looks of the smoke and if I did it right so it will look better .

Like I say it just a study of smoke and I know we all look at nature to do a better job in art.

what you see is not what you know; it in your face

Smoke is hard to define graphically. Everyone seems to have a preconcieved notion of what it looks like in a render and alot of times in real life it's a lot denser and chunkier than we imagine. what we think looks good isn't always realistic. It's something that's bugged me for a couple of years - I admit I dunno what to say hear but would care to hear what others have to say so I'll hang back and in the words of Kelsy Gramer's(sp)  Dr. Crane character I'll just say  "I'm listening".

"Speed limit 35 MPH - Fords do your damnedest" - reportedly an old speed limit sign near King's Canyon National Park that was up in the mid 1930s.   

I just took a photo of one type of smoke and then it may be stream comeing out of those stacks as some of the comments have it. I like to take photos of other diff type of smoke or look at photos of smoke. Like forest fires and people smokeing.  and some comments that bryce can not make good smoke lol

 

If you wish anyone can post a image or photo on smoke here. It just a looky to see how smoke is made and look like

what you see is not what you know; it in your face

Nice pics Jocko, and this is definitely an area that I find interesting, though I probably would take the lazy man's approach and use the free "Cumulus" plug-in. You can use it pre(using a cloud picture object with an alpha), or post in PS or other image editors that can use the plug. I know a clever, hard-working artist can get good smoke using Bryce, but the most convincing smoke I've seen in a Bryce still-shot still has had a "little help". The best smoke I've seen in a Bryce animation was done using a free cover -disc ver. of "ParticleIllusion SE 2.0".  

             

I've gave up with 3D smoke, now I prefer to paint smoke with photoshop, and animate it with after effect for movies.