Blob Star by parrotdolphin

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Checking out photons in POV-Ray. This is made of blobs (like meta balls).

SpearHawk Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2008

Awesome! Looks like a really elaborate teething ring.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Ha ha! Thanks.

Lillyanna Featured By Owner Oct 3, 2008

Neat

rabbitica Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2006 Digital Artist

Ah, nice, very nice.!

Reminds me of those squishy bath beads that desolve in warm water.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Oh yeah, you're right! Now I want some, they always smell like baby oil, and they're so pretty too.

rabbitica Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2006 Digital Artist

LOL Ever tried to squeez a fresh one between your fingers? They just don't burst. Maybe a good thing.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Now I HAVE to get some!

e-chau-j Featured By Owner Apr 19, 2006

I love it. Is that gossy effect hard to get? cuz, you know
after seeing so much renders frmo you, all trought Pov-Ray, V-Ray and else-rays, I've decided to try it out myself.
So...greetings, main source of inspiration

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 20, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Good luck if you try POV-Ray. Read, read, read... and code, code, code

Glossy hard to get? Naw, POV has include files that have predefined textures, colors, materials (like glass, metals, etc) and you can use those to get started.

Lokai2000 Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006

Oh wow! Sometimes simple is better. Did you use a color gradient over the blobs (errr.. metaballs) or did you set each color individually?

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks Max. POV-Ray calls 'em blobs, seems like most other programs call them metaballs, same thing. Its a gradient color_map.
I still want to figure out how to get those prismatic artifacts (caustics?)

Lokai2000 Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006

You have to enable photons.

Render times get reeeeeallly slow.
Let me know if you want more info. I have done caustics before.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Yup, I had the photons on for this peice, and it was slow to render. I'm going to try and figure out the prismatic stuff myself one of these days, but if I can't, I will come knocking.

Thanks!

imagnum Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006 Digital Artist

That's what I call prompt delivery.

It's cute

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks sweetheart!

imagnum Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2006 Digital Artist

She called me sweetheart

May I get a bump-mapped surface onto the glass sculpture now? Those caustics can stand some turbulence, I suppose.

But then I'd get my own ass in gear and check out that photon gimmick myself.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Bumps? Sure, sweetie!

imagnum Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2006 Digital Artist

Wow, great!

And next I want a lilac metalic mercedes, a big bowl of stracciatella ice cream, and a pink plushy life-sized elephant.

Thanks in advance :rolf:

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Damn, I stuffed that elephant into the Mercedes, told him to drive his ass to Germany, and he spilled his ice cream all over the car and started crying. Elephants are so sensitive!

imagnum Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2006 Digital Artist

At least you've tried

Thanks for the laugh!

bluesman219 Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2006

Look like flat-jacks!!

Nicely done.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

I squashed my jacks.

. Thanks Phil!

bluesman219 Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2006

Welcome my friend.

golem1 Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Looks yummy, like jelly beans. Where does the model come from? Anything to do with Penrose tiling?

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Yeah, it does look that way, doesn't it? The Penrose angle occured to me too. This was something I was modelling in Blender, just playing around. But I coded it up for POV-Ray with real blobs becasue I didn't think the glass would be right with a mesh object.