PhotoWorks Chrome Desktop Rendering

I made a rendering with a few chrome parts for fun...
http://www.mikejwilson.com/misc/sw-chrome.jpg

It's 1600x1200 if anyone wants to use it as a desktop image or
to add to your website for those who collect these to share.

Mike Wilson

 

All I can say is WOW! And you can't even find a reflection of you or the
camera that you must have used to take this photograph of these real parts.

But seriously, I obviously got the Scooby thing, the airplane, and the
Speed Racer car, but what is the green thingy?

 

C'mon, seth, It's the world famous "Martian head in a jar". Tss, tss, tss..
;=)))

Very cool

 

Ok, Ok... I see it now. I should have been able to get that one.....
Maybe if it was skewed at an angle a little it would have been a little
clearer.

 

I'm working on an article that shows how to make a similar image.
Should be done in a few days. I'll post a link when it's published.

Mike

 

Awesome work, Mike. This is my attempt:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/ajwood/chrome.jpg

It's a Minelab F3 mine detector, by the way. It's probably the most
complex looking of our detectors (I'm an Industrial Designer there),
so it was the natural choice for this test. Looking forward to seeing
your article on this, Mike, to see how similar/different our
approaches are. ;-)

Adam.

 

wrote...

Man, that mine detector has totally cool looking design. Make's me
want to buy a metal detector and look for gold! I started building
one last year, but needed an oscilloscope to fine tune it, so it's
on hold for now.

The rendering looks fantastic. It's nice to see other peoples work.

Cheers,
Mike

 

By the way, are you guys using the spherical scene with the two
hemispheres at a constant gray color for this? Looks great.

Any bit maps applied to the hemispheres, if so? How do you change the
bitmaps? I cannot find the controls for that, but I've found sky_8 or
whatever seems to be the default.

Any hints? Great renderings.


Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com
(Remove "GETRIDOFTHIS" from email address)

 

Not sure about Mike, but I'm just using the standard four walls, floor
and ceiling set-up. (I studied Mike's render pretty closely for the
colours ;-)). Being at home right now I can't tell you too much about
settings (as it's all on my work PC), but three walls and the floor
are a light grey plastic, and one wall is a black plastic. The ceiling
is a shiny white plastic. Nothing complex really.

I've got three lights in the scene and the incidental illumination is
on. The material is the standard chrome plate, with the illumination
changed to Dielectric. I found that gives much stronger contrast in
the reflections.

Adam.

 

Yes it's a pretty impressive unit. Going over really well with the
USMC, so we're told.

At work we have an old sample one of these, made up of polycarbonate
plastics and chromed aluminium, which was used to wow the managers and
potential customers. My next Photoworks project is to to a render of
that. I'm guessing it could take a while to render. ;-)

Adam.

 

Thanks, Adam. Great tips!


Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com
(Remove "GETRIDOFTHIS" from email address)

 

Here they be...
http://www.triaxialdesign.com/tip_tricks.html

Look for this months issue................................

Mike

 

Mike,
One of my students wanted to see if she could reproduce your
SolidWorks Scooby in Inventor. She had to divide it into pieces and
assemble because of bloated file size, but here is her results in
chrome.

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Student Gallery/chrome scooby.jpg

J.D.

 

"JDMATHER"wrote...

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Student Gallery/chrome scooby.jpg

Wow, that is so awesome! Thanks for sharing that. I wish I could be
there to check out some of the techniques used and how Inventor
does it's surfacing.

It looks like the chrome is reflecting an outdoor type scene.
SolidWorks has something similar called 'Real View' and it
has been known to reflect a car show and I think a house.

Regards,
Mike Wilson

 

Living proof that she has the wrong software package.

 

You didn't say which one is the wrong software package?
Based on your limited view I would bet my money that she can out
perform you with either? My goal is for the students to understand
modeling. We compare and contrast modeling procedures trying as much
as possible to use the exact same procedures in different CAD
programs.
J.D.

 

J.D.
I wouldnt go so far as to say that Pickles doesnt know what he
doing. He has been a SW jockey for quite sometime. Second I think what
he was reffering to was the fact that when you look at the rendering
quality of the Chrome from both SW and IV....that the SW looks 10
times better. The IV model looks very faceted and sharp. I am not
doubting your students skills or what they are capabale of.

On another note, why the side by side comparison between the two?
Is for just test purpose or for industry know how? Is there a goal to
this?