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Lokai2000 — The Glass Dancer
Published: 2005-11-29 22:22:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 3084; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 263
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or maybe it should be called "Caustics Gone Wild"My second experiment using caustics in Povray. The glass material took a long time to get the way I like. It reminds me of those glass marbles I used to find on remote railroad tracks. When the a small test render completed, it just blew my mind. Don't even ask how long the final render took.
As a side note, I got the chess pieces from a povray include file. They were originally done by a gentlemen named Ville Saari.
Character is DAZ's Aiko3 (Lynx). Yada, yada, yada.....
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Wow, your caustics are absolutely fantastic! Really - I've played with caustics a bit and it is hard to get a good effect. Its interesting, in the clothing, you can see the mesh - looks great in glass. I read the other comments here - now I am thinking it would be interesting to render a head in glass, just to see what it would look like 
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Thanks!
The meshes in the clothing were on purpose. I wanted them to look like facets cut into the surface. It worked better than I would have hoped. It also caused the numerous little rainbows on the floor. I disabled the mesh smoothing for the dress to achieve the effect.
As for the head.... The inner mouth, teeth, eyeballs , etc... look really bad in glass.
Given the way povray does caustics, I can't make these materials transparent to get rid of them. The polygons have to be removed from the mesh. I just didn't have the patience for this.
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Ha, yeah, removing the polygons will make you into a madman way before you are done. I tried it once, and gave up. I wish there was a way to get rid of them in Poser. Maybe there is, I'm pretty new with Poser. Anyway, I am always glad to find someone on Deviantart using POV-Ray (especially with Poser too!)
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Shiny!!! hey Truley look SHINY and took a real long tme to render....
Looks great Lokai
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Very nice material setting! Very inspiring... have to try this sometime...
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Awesome!! The glass is amazing!
What program did you render in?!
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But the render is amazing!
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so cool looking! i think it would have been even better she she was totaly made of glass! ^_^ its beautiful.
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I tried this originally. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to make the tongue, inner mouth, teeth, etcc.. from turning to glass. This was a side effect of how Povray creates glass materials.
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that's really interesting. oh well. 3d programs have a long way to go! ^_^ its still a beautiful piece. something to be proud of.
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lovely lovely
I have daz But not I obtained to install the models that I caught in the site: ( Some tip?
nice character
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Wow.. that's beautiful, the body looks so fragile and yet strong.. a true work of art
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This is so beautiful - and really warrants a look at it in full size to see the details. Excellent.
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OHMIGOSH THATSSSOOOO COOOOOOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! that must've taken HOURS!!!! man... can't even come up with adequate words, so i'll just favorite it, and we'll call it even! ^^
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