Two quick images I made this month to try to get back at "just for fun" raytracing.

At last I did something with the toy piano, which was sitting on the WIP section for too long....

Last year I forgot to publish some images... I found about it when reorganizing my folders (now that 3.7 is almost out, I've started to do some cleaning of the workbench).

Again, I was lazy and didn't update the site in a long time... well, at least seems I naturally settled for 2 updates per year, wich is not that bad. But recent developments suggest that I will be updating this site more frequently in the future. Unfortunately, pending projects and WIPs will have to be put aside for the moment...

Here are some new images finished this year, and a stalled experiment which should come back to life soon...

New images on the also new Lighting Challenges gallery.

I added a new gallery section to host all my entries to the Lighting Challenges organized by Jeremy Birn.

New works in progress... although some of them don't seem to progress that much.

Computer Bug

Following my recent experiments with Eagle3D, by visitors request, I added a little tutorial (with source code) about my method to enhance Eagle3D renders.

Just to test the new CMSMS admin interface, I've uploaded some unpublished images and experiments from this year. Indeed, it works nicely, simple and effective as I like it... but the most important part is that publishing new pages and images is now much easier.

Some recent experiments...

I've just uploaded some new WIPs:

I've updated the site CMS (CMS Made Simple), and as a side effect, all the news disappeared... not really a great loss, and much less problematic than what I was expecting for an update from 0.11.2 to 1.6.

I will restore later a few of the more recent news from the backup.

Some time ago, Chris Cason, the POV-Ray Team Coordinator, lend me a copy of Chief Architect X1, a professional home design software. This program uses POV-Ray as the internal raytracing engine, and also exports to POV format. Here is a tutorial on how to get better, more realistic results out of it.

There are new images on several pages:

Almost a year since the last update... wow! I'm really lazy! This doesn't necessarily means that I had a lot of things pending to publish... in fact, 2008 was a rather unproductive year regarding POV-Ray as a hobby (although I started to do some work with POV-Ray, and I have good prospects to do more). Anyhow, as I was reorganizing my /raytracing folder, I decided to publish the few things I did last year, and as a bonus I added also some forgot/stalled scenes I found in the process. More images and other material will be coming soon..