What's for lunch today,.... Chicken?

Saw this today in a email from Next Limit...

http://www2.nextlimit.com/newsletter/summer07/img/cockerelspubpubze9.jpg

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oh, and the link to this guys site...

http://www.insideko.com/

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mmmm....just ate though.

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Is it kosher chicken? ;>)

 

Not possible . . . is it? That can't be a rendered 3D model, unless
maybe it was rendered and then touched up (heavily) with some
sophisticated photo editing software. Do ya really think? Zounds!!

 

Yes that is straight rendered. When you get into multi weighted
materials, micro poly displacement, bump and normal mapping etc. then
the results are very realistic, and it's improving almost daily.

 

yeah,.. but it's not quite there...I mean,.. is there a scratch-n-
sniff BlueTooth plug-in option?

... 8^)

 

I'm sure they'll just beam the scent directly into your brain some day
soon!

<another over the top example - not by me!>
http://www.ag-systems.net/mxw/kitchen_ceiling.jpg

 

How are they capturing specular/roughness information?

 

The materials are multi layered where each layer can be weighted or
it's appearance controlled by an image map. ie. black shows one layer
white shows another and grey scales are blends between. The number of
layers aren't limited.

This makes it easy to have chipped paint revealing rusted metal
wherever the chips are for example. (or show crispy bits of chicken)

Also, roughness or bump/normal aniso etc are all controllable by value
or by image map. So again it becomes possible to introduce realistic
variation in materials.

Zander