May Challenge, Multiplicity. Make an image which has a large group of similar things in it and something interesting is happening with them. What kinds of things are we talking about? Examples would be a bowl of marbles, a collection of butterflies in a tree, people in a line at the store, bunches of buildings, rows of books, etc. How would these examples be interesting? A cat could be playing with the marbles, the butterflies could be feeding on the flowers in the tree, the people could be in an argument over a magazine cover, the buildings could be on fire, the books could be in a bookshelf that's falling over, etc. What constitutes a large group? Let's say eight or more. As always, good luck and have fun! -Kix

-Kix

Now this one is different. :) This should prove to be quite fun.. and I'd love to hear the poly counts ;)

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nice idea! Rimrunner whats so interesting on the polycounts, 8 books just took me one box with a texture of 8 books in a row..but...well..okay, i need a second tex for the bump...rotfl Kixum, Congrats again and thanks for this challenge!

It's coming it's coming... it's been rendering for 24 hours now... :)

had a hardtime figuring out what 'something interesting happening to them' really meant. figured...there are many identical spirals in this and it looks interesting so I thought i'd take the chance that it would be acceptable. If not, tell me and i'll enter something different

definetely looks interesting dude, reminds me of fringe mathematics :)

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Fishies fishies everywhere...

I got your multiplicity here...

awesome job gorondin!

I'm in.

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Very busy this month. Only had a couple of hours. -Kix

-Kix

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This is my first challenge. Hope you like it and thanks.

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i created this for a C64 music remix CD called Back in Time 3. it shows the final battle between the heros and the invading alien scum. Stats: Bryce 4 file size: 28 meg Objects: 2647 Polygons: 679564 Render Time: yonks

how many minutes is a yonk?

many many lots ;o)

made it a bit smaller :)

BT

As seen at 3d commune. 350 meg bryce file... render time 4 hours.. (Pentium 4 2.50Ghz 2048 Meg of 266Mhz DDRAM)

holy mother of god...

I echo that Draculaz!!! LordofDragons, can you pleasssssse tell us more (lots) about this picture. It is astounding!

I just went a little over board with MR, using a modified diamond mat that i created.
MR has been a kind of addiction of late, making a basic 1000 sphere porject, onto 12,500 and then onto 17,000.
The sphere size in this scene is 1000 in every axis.
I have only been modeling and working in Bryce for about a year, as such i have a long way to go.
Sphere count in the scene?, i have no idea, i shall however attempt to work it out..LOL...i'll try.
I am currently working on a 50,000 sphere multirep using a modified diamond mat similar to the diamond mat within this piece...yep its diamond...well was...LOL.
My largest Br.4 file is 876 meg in size, which has basically killed my pc many times...i am now returning to sanity'ville to create something a little smaller.

Steve..aka Lord Of Dragons.

what's MR?

MR= Multi Replication. Taking a single sphere then commanding it to curve, swirl and move in whatever direction you choose up to a max of 999 spheres at a time, just keep repeating the process till you get bored or until the pc melts..

Wow, you are doing amazingly well Steve! I wonder if I'll be as far along as you when I've been at this for a year :) er, what kind of beast do you run/melt anyway? Must be pretty powerful to handle 800mb+!

I run a Pentium 4 2.20Ghz clocked at 2.50Ghz with 2048 meg of 266Mhz RAM, Ge-force 4 TI14600,60 Gb Hard drive,21" Monitor and a few other trimmings. My love for bryce has moved me onto Rhino/3dsMax/Softimage XSi,Amapi,Vue 4,Cinema 4D and lately Carrara for Animations, you could say im hooked...LOL. My addy i think has changed since my membership here it is now: Fantasia.Art.Studios@blueyonder.co.uk. Good luck everyone.. Steve

They're gonna hit ya! I made this image a few weeks ago and I thought it would qualify for the multiplicity challenge. This is my first entry in a challenge forum so comments please! All Photoshop 6.

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Nothing really interesting or innovative here, except perhaps for the title ... just an experiment I conducted last week to see how many Poser figures I could effectively use simultaneously on a really crappy system. And it seemed to fit the theme.

9 copies of Victoria Reduced Resolution (V-Lo, as I like to call her), with DAZ's low-resolution sample maps

Pentium 3 800MHz, 128MB of RAM, Windows 98 First Edition

Now, where's low-res Mike?

Wow LordOfDragons, that is one serious machine!! After reading that my poor little 233mhz is hiding under the desk (grin). Anybody want to trade machines with me?

Ok.. with a week left in May, this is a final call for enties to May's Challenge. Voting will begin on Monday the 27th. Good luck folks (and to those yet to enter). We've had a great turn out this month. :)

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i found today this contest forum. here is my entry :-) I made this image a few months ago,this picture was only a raytrace test! made in truespace 5.1 4 objects (1 cube,2 cylinder, 1 sphere) and 1 light :-) (polys = very low) lol i cant remember the rendertime, but it was very fast (maybe 30min.)

You're cracking me up (Lord of Dragons) Steve.... They have'nt even seen your real works. You are the master of multiplicity. After Gorodin's statement " I got your multiplicity here" I had to get you entered. Shoulda posted the one with ... what was it?...10 million or something spheres...lol Thanx bro