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Re:Robotic aneurysm by faichai · 2009-07-06 19:48 · Score: 1 · on Robot Invented To Crawl Through Veins

Of course.

It seems that finally my desktop wallpaper will become a reality - see:
http://www.povcomp.com/entries/128.php

A work of pure genius!

Re:I wonder by Grard+Menfin · 2008-02-16 08:02 · Score: 4, Interesting · on POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners

It's been traditional for POV-Ray users to create images entirely by code. That was the case for instance of this image that won the POVCOMP competition in 2004: most objects, including very complex ones, were made using isosurfaces, that are basically function-based objects. Scenes like this one and this one were also written in POV-Ray code, and the source is available.

Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-30 16:43 · Score: 0 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

WTF are you smoking? There's nothing at "High End 3D" that looks more real than the this.

You can turn out crap with POV-Ray, Maya, Mental Ray, or ANY tool, and High End 3D proves it.

Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-30 15:23 · Score: 0 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Yup. Someone entered a snap I took on my digicam and it won first place!

Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-30 14:26 · Score: 0 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

All the metal should be acting as a light source and the reflection on the back cabnet should also be radiating light. Its a good render for ray tracer but RAY TRACING IS OLD. Radiosity and stocastic renders are much higher quality then this.

Well, that scene doesn't look to be using photons, hence the lack of caustics. POV-Ray can do that though, it just takes a long time. (see the shadow of the bottle in the "blind mice" entry; the "peek-a-blocks" also have excellent caustics) Would it really have added that much to this image? Eh, it's quite good as it is.

Radiosity, well, if you'd read the notes with the image, it's obvious that that is used. Furthermore, the lighting would be very difficult to achieve otherwise, esp. in places like above the cupboards or under the sink.

Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-30 14:26 · Score: 0 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

All the metal should be acting as a light source and the reflection on the back cabnet should also be radiating light. Its a good render for ray tracer but RAY TRACING IS OLD. Radiosity and stocastic renders are much higher quality then this.

Well, that scene doesn't look to be using photons, hence the lack of caustics. POV-Ray can do that though, it just takes a long time. (see the shadow of the bottle in the "blind mice" entry; the "peek-a-blocks" also have excellent caustics) Would it really have added that much to this image? Eh, it's quite good as it is.

Radiosity, well, if you'd read the notes with the image, it's obvious that that is used. Furthermore, the lighting would be very difficult to achieve otherwise, esp. in places like above the cupboards or under the sink.

Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by bcmm · 2005-05-30 10:07 · Score: 1 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Your saying this doesn't look real?

Re:Yow. by ultranova · 2005-05-30 09:45 · Score: 1 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Forgot to fill in the link... I meant this picture.

I was impressed by De+Lemming · 2005-05-30 08:59 · Score: 1 · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

by this entry, made by a 7 year old girl... (Read the description and making of.)

Re:Yay for POV ray! by De+Lemming · 2005-05-30 08:54 · Score: 2, Insightful · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Interesting, was expecting shiny metallic balls on a chequered floor plane

Have a look at "The Kitchen", it has a reflective-sphere-on-checkered-plane fridge magnet and "POV Flakes" "with checkered board inside!" :-) (See detail view for the flakes.)

Re:Yay for POV ray! by De+Lemming · 2005-05-30 08:54 · Score: 2, Insightful · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Interesting, was expecting shiny metallic balls on a chequered floor plane

Have a look at "The Kitchen", it has a reflective-sphere-on-checkered-plane fridge magnet and "POV Flakes" "with checkered board inside!" :-) (See detail view for the flakes.)

Wow by 88NoSoup4U88 · 2005-05-30 06:59 · Score: 2, Interesting · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

This image got me stunned. Looks quite real.

Exemplified by fenodyree · 2005-05-30 06:37 · Score: 2, Insightful · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

Actually, Gilles Tran work is used as an example of what a submission _should_ look like. In the first explanatory paragraph of TFA.

Quoting:
It can be used to generate photorealistic http://www.povcomp.com/hof/1b.html images that resemble objects in the real world, or to visualize 'virtual' objects that do not physically exist.

Needs new caption by nizo · 2005-05-30 06:22 · Score: 2, Interesting · on POV-Ray Competition Winners

I think this one needs a caption, something like: "Leaving a trail of crap wherever we go". The boy reaching for the stars is an ominous portent of things to come if we ever achieve a means of intersteller travel.

(You can see the homepage of the same image here if the pov website gets slashdotted)