Procedural Coral Bed by dburdick

Vue • Sea/Undersea • posted on May 09, 2005

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Description

This was one of those happy accidents you get every once in a while. I was playing with Vue's procedural terrains and twiddled the dials just the right way to come up with a reasonably convincing coral bed terrain. Just follow the simple 2 step recipe above(apologies to non-Vuers) - The key is to clip the terrain altitudes with the accidental filter I came up with, which punches holes in the columns to make them look like tube coral. Play with the colors as you like - the ones I used here were similar to what I saw diving in Cabo, but I might be a little off, since I drank a goodly amount of wine and Tequila the night before.

Comments (23)

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Polax

3:14AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Great find !! thanks a lot for sharing I find it very convincing:)!

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kenwas

3:22AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Agree with Paul Fine stuff.

kiddd7

3:23AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Excellent job!! Looks real!! Might give it a shot myself!!:) and thanks alot for sharing!!!:DV

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FrenchKiss

4:09AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

OHHHhhh that looks fantastic! Wonderful job!

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bruno021

4:57AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Cool! Thanks for sharing! Who said tequila was bad? It brings out very colourful memories!

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Skipychic

5:31AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Totally awesome work... this looks fantastic :)

Bert007

5:40AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

yeah very cool effect there

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regaltwo

6:08AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Very good stuff. I've never made much use of the filters in Vue. Clearly I need to use them more.

macrey18

6:27AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

great image

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sacada

6:28AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Excellent terrain work and love the water effect, too.

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sittingblue

6:59AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

fabulous artwork... thanks for sharing!

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Shari123

7:31AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

A fabulous discovery! Thank you for sharing this.

REG

9:32AM | Mon, 09 May 2005

Dave, this is really great. Very realistic. Thanks for sharing your discovery. This is a great way to get a great find like this out to help other artists in the community in that one could spend hours, or days, or weeks changing variables to find something specific like this. Much better than sifting through tutorials too! Thanks again. "E" V

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