A falling Snowflake . . . for kenwas by mcv

Holiday • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Dec 02, 2006

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A falling Snowflake . . . . . .one of billions, each said to be unique. Now were is that snow shovel? Dedictated to kenwas, an excellent, creative, and product artist who makes wonderful rendered landscapes, always very realistic, yet also always very artistic! Credits: Created via PovRay and based heavily on Ben Scheele's excellent snowflake code. Code tweaked to remove 5 floating point divides from the inner nested loop, given a good speed boast. (Still ran all night to render , sigh . . .) Move to a blue color scheme with brighter lights, certainly too blue and not transparent enough for a realism image, but hopefully pretty cool for an artistic effort. Post process in IrfanView to give a surreal frosty look, once again more for art and that suggesting of cold weather one gets rather than realism. All comments welcome, mcv

Comments (10)

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lior

5:07PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

Very creative and impressiv render!

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Star4mation

5:11PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

If the snowflakes start falling down as big as this Mike, Im staying down the Pub!!! Excellent :)

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mcv

6:23PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

Steve, it's a newfangle "macro-render", and you are always in the pub! Hmmm, how do you get all those fine renders done then, do you have a laptop computer or do you get those excellent artwork via long render times, which mean a pub run will be no problem!? Cheers and "bottoms up" ;-) , as a really good friend often says (and hopefully will render soon - LOL)

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jocko500

6:45PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

wonderful done and to a very good artist. Wonder if the "Who's in Whoville" live here lol hahah just kidding. super done even in a pub

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1010

7:10PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

What a festive image, very cheerful. A beautiful design too.........

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shahlaa

8:52PM | Sat, 02 December 2006

I love it, looks so real...great job

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judee3d

3:43AM | Sun, 03 December 2006

Very cool!! Oh, excuse me, should I say cold? wink Really, I'm amazed at what can be done with code, this is fabulous!

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1hawks1

8:28AM | Sun, 03 December 2006

Very lovely my friend..Beautifully done.

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kodewarrior1

4:32AM | Tue, 05 December 2006

Great and really detailed snowflake! Nice work!!

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MeredithWilson

8:57PM | Wed, 13 December 2006

Dear Mike, Unlike most people that are dreading the arrival of snow, I hope I get a chance to see some this year. There isn't nuch chance of any showing up here on the gulf coast of Texas, but maybe I'll have a chance to get to the mountains sometime. I'd love to ski some - it's been a while. That's realyl cool how you reworked the code to get rid of the floating point divisions - I'm sure tha speeded stuff up a lot - but then maybe not enough to make it render "instantly." Rendering is an area that will really benefit from the emerging multi-cores - once the software catches up. We contract for time from a geophysical imaging company for out final animation renders. Even with a HUGE banked rendering farm we still only manage about one second of final animation per hour. Of course, we are always dealing with millions and unsually billions of polygons. A really pretty snowflake - the crystalline structure is super!!!!! Love ya!!!! Meredith