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Title: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 07, 2010, 07:49:11 AM
Dedicated to Frank's fantastic work on cumulus clouds :)
I doodled a bit with one of his setups and this is the result so far...

Cheers,
Martin
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 07, 2010, 07:54:58 AM
Slightly different postwork
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 07, 2010, 08:42:50 AM
Webster's Dictionary - Cumulus Basinskus - A highly detailed cloud formation only found in computer graphics. Is well known for approximating a real photo.
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 07, 2010, 10:28:50 AM
Thanks Henry :)

Frank is doing a real good job on these type of clouds.
At least 80-90% what you see here is his work (base fractal and lighting).
I only slightly added 2 extra fractals and made minor tweaks to the lighting to get lighter shadows.

I rendered this with RTE enabled, detail 1, GI 2/4 and quite some samples for atmosphere and clouds to get noise-free results.
Therefore it all in all took 13 hours to render, but I cropped a bit from the original version, say 25%.

I'll try to make another one the next few days.
Cheers,

Martin
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: CCC on March 07, 2010, 05:28:51 PM
Looks like a Photo to me. The only other thing i would change if possible is some tiny-scale rigid fractal breakup along the cloud edges but not all over.
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Gannaingh on March 07, 2010, 05:32:29 PM
Absolutely awesome! Great work TU and Frank!
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: choronr on March 09, 2010, 05:27:47 PM
Basinskus? Wasn't he a meteorologist from Lithuania? Kidding aside, this formation is looking very good Martin and Frank.
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: inkydigit on March 09, 2010, 05:34:21 PM
damn fine cloudage!
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 10, 2010, 04:14:42 AM
Thanks guys, I'll try to make some more soon! :)

Martin
Title: Re: Cumulus Basinskus
Post by: Dick Dastardly on March 10, 2010, 07:36:31 AM
Excellent work.