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My latest work of "art" using POV-Ray which I just started on today.



30s to render with a nice fake lens flare and every single pixel supersampled. It's basically 2 spheres, 8 triangles (in the diamond shape) and then a sphere removed from the centre of the triangles. I stuck a light inside and added a fake lens flare otherwise the light appears to come from no-where because light sources are not objects and so can't be seen when you look directly at them. Oh, and there's a checker-board plane across the "bottom".

good effort

I'm more into 3d modelling myself with 3d max which can make similiar things, although I tend to make models of ships etc

You can use some modelling tools and import the models into POV-Ray for ray tracing, although I'm not sure which tools are supported. What I did here was purely rendered from typing out vector coordinates and materials/textures. All text-based. When you run it the program parses the text file to begin the rendering.

I have no idea what the heck you guys are talking about, but it looks cool, Randy.

Some of us are gamers, some are Tech guys, some are adventurous and try out cool shit that amazes others. Chris.

yea thats the major difference with max. In max you make shapes and shape them into objects etc.
It does have a POV-Ray plugin I think, not sure if my version has it though.

You can make some complex-ish shapes in POV as well, but it's far more efficient to use a modeller and then import. Here's a brass cup.