Quote from: Cyber-Angel on March 17, 2007, 07:39:42 PM
Dark-Fire,
To answer you question no I don't have a degree in physics, but I spend a lot of time reading whats out there on the Internet and then trying to peace it all together. I just happen to love finding relationships in complex phenomena and have come to the conclusion the world in which we live isn't nearly as complex as people seem to think it is.
The way I look at it is this software such Terragen try to model parts of the natural physical world and its many phenomena, conversely then nature has certain immutable laws which we call the laws of physics.
Put it another way cut a slice from an apple, you have a partially whole apple not the complete whole; representing nature on a computer then at the moment with all the fudging, workarounds and so forth is like the apple with the missing slice it isn't the complete picture and therefore not as one would expect.
As computers get more powerful new methods replace the old, if your going to represent nature on a computer then nature has rules that need to be followed just like if people go up against nature and as you know nature wins every time, you cannot escape the fundamental laws of physics and how they interact with one another.
As it stands right now there are two many uncertainties, to many unknowns and areas of grey about various aspects of how nature works, what we know to be true today may not be so in ten or even fifty years form now, but that is what discovery (Not the Channel) and a sense of wonder (I never lost mine) will do for you.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
Heh just saying, you COULD represent nature..on a computer..with the current computer software/hardware.
All I'm saying is, its just a matter of your creativity~
(Me = looking at it from a different perspective and case)
You see, 3d art has always been a creative passion for me. I long to make those seemingly mysterious and beautiful art pieces down at the Maxon Cinema 4D gallery. ALWAYS wanted to. Beautiful, modernistic architecture with its definitive simplicity has always appealed to me..and I have always marvelled at it.
When I saw Terragen's (first) gallery, I was simply amazed..I went on to model, but was not able to achieve those results..I did once, but then, I followed a tutorial and got lost..
Well, I saw Terragen TWO's gallery, and I was simply amazingly shocked - those trees on that beautiful on that yet dusty, yet High Definition landscape..
That's why I've always been sticking to it. I was like..drooling when I was waiting for the TG2TP download.
And thus, by 'some' hard effort, I managed to make some pretty awesome renders...by my standards, that is
lol
Ok, I kinda..wandered off there...but the main point is 3D art = creativity.
You can simulate nature with your hard efforts, such as the fantastic team at Crysis have done.
But then again, we're talking about computer..software..aren't we...
Software only takes us so far, the rest is our hard work
^ ^
So start working hard, TG2 artists! Let's make those scenes we've been so ever striving to make...
Oh and Will, the renaissance man still does exist. Sort of.
The only thing is funding, which could easily be obtained if you..have a high paying job
Or be friends with Bill Gates who gives you 5 mil for your birthday. Yay.