Posted on April 11, 2016

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Posted on April 10, 2016

Lavender (Sunset)

Shortly after posting my original “Lavender” render multiple Members requested a sunset version. Sounded like a great idea to me 🙂

Let me know what you think!

Posted on April 6, 2016

Lavender

I’ve had this scene rattling around my head for a while and it seemed like the perfect exercise to learn some skills in both World Machine (the furrowed field) and Plant Factory (the lavender).

I’ve spent the past few days trying different lighting settings but I’m still not completely pleased. Better to post it here while I tinker because I do think it looks nice enough to share as is. Look for an update in a day or two 🙂

Let me know what you think!

Posted on March 29, 2016

Myriad

Continuing the theme of mathematical beauty I offer “Myriad”, a 3D fractal mandala that I created and rendered using Mandelbulb3D. After the in-your-face brightness of “Fibonacci’s Flower” I thought it would be best to mute the colors a bit for this one.

I hope you enjoy it!!

Posted on March 23, 2016

Fibonacci’s Flower

Leonardo Bonacci (a.k.a. Fibonacci) was an Italian mathematician during the late 12th/early 13th century. It was he who popularized the Hindu-Arabic system of numeration that we still use today. He also gave us the famous “Fibonacci Sequence”; a series of numbers where each number is equal to the sum of the previous two before it. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, etc.

The sequence appears throught nature in many ways. The shell of the nautilus, the arrangement of leaves on a plant and the number of petals in a flower is a good example. The numbers form the “Golden Ratio”.

I created this flower in “The Plant Factory” using the Fibonacci sequence. There are 377 outer petals, 233 in the next set inward, 144 and lastly 89 in the innermost ring. The numbers are used in other ways too. Hopefully the sequence will create a bit of extra subconscious realism.

I rendered the scene using Vue d’Esprit. Let me know what you think!