Dragon Gardner


Summer is a nice season. I like summer the best.
I've been in vacation. I don't want to type on my PC.
So nothing has done recently...

However, I found something interesting in the SketchUp's archive, which might be popular recently;

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?tags=Optical+Illusions+dragon+gardner+paper

You can also try this optical illusion with your PC and SketchUp.

最近よく見かけるコレが、SketchUp用のモデルで登録されていたので、
久しぶりにちょっと遊んでみただけ。
夏は夏らしく過ごしたいので…レンダラー作りは芸術の秋まで後回し。

Depth of field effect test


I set the focus on the queen's eye in the scene. The blurry effect was done by a simple way like taking a light field of a scene.
I think that chess sets are good to see this effect.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=afff39b9eaa19e046fad3c29049204ac

Pictorial look of Arnold renderer !?


I made this image using my renderer.
This time I wanted to make it in the look of an sample image in this Arnold gallery here.
http://www.3dluvr.com/marcosss/morearni/index.html
It's just a fun rendering.
要するに、アーノルドレンダラー風の絵を作ってみたかったわけで・・・

The model of this tank used is here:
http://www.meshfactory.com/freedownload.htm

The rendering compitition 2007

http://graphics.ucsd.edu/courses/rendering/2007/thachisuka/
I found this page yeasterday. He might be the author of Parthenon renderer, and made a great job on the compitition.
In the last part of the page, there are some test images without any comments. They are rather noisy. So I wonder what he was trying to do for them.
Anyway, I wish I could go abroad to study like him...

Area light test


天空照明ばかりではさすがに飽きてきた。室内シーンも作ってみたいので、
とりあえずエリアライトを追加してみました。
I added some lines of program to suport the area light souces. One of the result images is above.
By the way, I really want to rewrite my renderer because my source code has been getting like spaghetti.