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Mediabook
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:47 pm
by FarbigeWelt
- Lenses, GPU Path, Metropolis, t24, d12, g12, s24 10'000S, 6h26m, 4320x4320
Re: Mediabook
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:36 pm
by Mango3
Interesting scene composition. I like the scene with lens array.
Some observations. There seems still to be a lot of chromatic noise in the shadow regions.
The bidirectional path tracer may be better suited for this type of scene with caustics.
Also the sharp ring-shaped shadows look strange. One would expect more even intensity transitions from convex shaped lenses lit by a large area light.
Re: Mediabook
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:03 pm
by FarbigeWelt
Mango3 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:36 pm
Interesting scene composition. I like the scene with lens array.
Some observations. There seems still to be a lot of chromatic noise in the shadow regions.
The bidirectional path tracer may be better suited for this type of scene with caustics.
Also the sharp ring-shaped shadows look strange. One would expect more even intensity transitions from convex shaped lenses lit by a large area light.
Thank you much for your feedback, Mango3.
The composition is one of my reasons to choose it for the Mediabook in Finised Work. Another reason is, the picture shows what is at least possible with LuxCoreRenders' openCL/GPU path render in regard to caustics. ("Concentration of light, especially sunlight, can burn. The word caustic, in fact, comes from the Greek καυστός, burnt, via the Latin causticus, burning", wikipedia, 28.10.2018).
Indeed, there is a lot of chromatic noise in the picture, but there also is in pictures rendered with BiDir, see
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=576&start=30#p6987 and similar posts.
I am not sure, if I understand what you expect from an area light covering the area of lens array. These lenses (convex) focus light, there must be shadow somewhere because of 'collected' light. The surface in the the picture is plane, diffuse (matte) but even, a simple artifical surface with no hight. It does not behave like paper, or something we know based on real world experiences.
Re: Mediabook
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:21 am
by Mango3
Hi FarbigeWelt,
I made myself quickly a similar test scene and the sharp intensity transitions of the shadow borders are indeed correct.
It was just my first (wrong) intuition that the shadows look overly sharp.
Now I saw that in your Different Works in Progress thread you posted comparison pictures with bidir-cpu and path-pgu.
Always interesting to see comparison render of the different light transport methods. Nice work.
For difficult caustics Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping is a good algorithm (old Lux Classic had it).
Living Colors Room
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:13 pm
by FarbigeWelt
System is a key, fortune a muse.
LuxCoreRender 2.1 beta 1
2xHD, GPU Path, Sobol, clamped, manual Reinhard
2100 Samples, 100.0% convergence, denoised, jpged 16 bit png
5. November 2018
- Living Colors Room
The story, told behind the scene, starts here
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=576&start=50#p7145.
Re: Living Colors Room
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:04 pm
by lacilaci
FarbigeWelt wrote: ↑Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:13 pm
System is a key, fortune a muse.
LuxCoreRender 2.1 beta 1
2xHD, GPU Path, Sobol, clamped, manual Reinhard
2100 Samples, 100.0% convergence, denoised, jpged 16 bit png
5. November 2018
Living Colors Room.jpg
The story, told behind the scene, starts here
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=576&start=50#p7145.
If you don't mind, how does the image look before denoising? 2100 samples is quite a lot
Re: Living Colors Room
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:33 pm
by FarbigeWelt
lacilaci wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:04 pm
If you don't mind, how does the image look before denoising? 2100 samples is quite a lot
I have to check if I saved the raw too. There was some noise left here and there, but much less than with all lights enabled, especially the blue laser leads intentional to lot of ‚noise‘ because of the rough metal surface of the sphere to the left.
City of Lights
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 5:29 pm
by FarbigeWelt
After hours of setting up the objects, I finally got a few new renders for my Mediabook.
51m41s, openCL, PGIC 1500 samples
- Architecture big city night
12h05m (6/8 cores), BiDir, Metropolis 1500 samples
- Architecture big city night'
1h18m, openCL, PGIC 1500 samples
- Geometric Architecture at Dawn
23m36s, openCL, PGIC 1500 samples
- Geometric Architecture by Night
Re: City of Lights
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:44 pm
by epilectrolytics
FarbigeWelt wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 5:29 pm
After hours of setting up the objects, I finally got a few new renders for my Mediabook.
Those are cool renders!
Looks like AI cities after humanity gone extinct
You could do animations by blending/fading between different lightings as with the first two renders.
Make single buildings appear and disappear and so on.
Re: City of Lights
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:10 am
by FarbigeWelt
epilectrolytics wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:44 pm
Those are cool renders!
Looks like AI cities after humanity gone extinct
Thank you much!
Was not my intend to give this impression. However the material to create this building is not yet invented it is quasi transparent like opacified glass.