Just for fun

[vlado]

I've been playing with something and the results turned out quite nice:





Note that the directly visible caustics are perfectly correct (e.g. no interpolation or anything). We'll see what (if anything) will come out of this...

Best regards,
Vlado

[ene.xis]

amazing!
2nd one is gr8!

what r u going after here vlado?hum?

[percydaman]

cool beans. how does it look if you turn on appreciable area shadows?

[vlado]

cool beans. how does it look if you turn on appreciable area shadows?

A bit noisier, as you would expect

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

Here is a quick one with area light:



And one with VRaySun (turned out a bit greenish by mistake):



Best regards,
Vlado

[dimo]

Great,

looks really very clean. Any rendertimes?

Dieter

[vlado]

looks really very clean. Any rendertimes?

About 5 to 10 minutes, I think.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jonnybefree]

looks great!

qmc/LC?

[skogskalle]

5-10 minutes?? which ones? I imagine the ice-cube image must have taken longer...or? if not thats really fast! (and it looks cool!)

[Neilg]

Any chance of elaborating on what youve done?

It looks like some new fast way to calculate caustics... which is nice, as ive never been able to justify using them before.

[stochastic]

ppt? Unbiased techniques? very fast

[Morbid Angel]

yeah what kind of method is it?
looks like adaptive ppt

[Paul Oblomov]

Don't think it's smth deals with ppt ... Smth like fast photon mapping technique.

But awesome anyway!!!

[winberg]

Those look cool...
Not that I need to use caustics much, but those few times I have tried to use them I never seem to get the result I want.
Or the amount of testrenders to tweak them right are way to time consuming.

-Tom

[DaForce]

Nice render Vlado.. really cool!!

So whats teh trick? new caustics method? as 5-10mins is pretty swift especially for the ice cube one