Bad day, real bad christmas..

Ho ho ho, merry christmas to everyone! Hope everyone get a better christmas than me. This is my second fractal render. I made it when I got trapped for a long spare time in the hotel room while my grandfather goes to church for Christmas pray. First, I thought 4 billions of iterations will be a great render. Well, it is.. it’s a good render, but it takes approximately 3 and a half hours!! I was just keep wandering around the hotel room, and keep checking out my laptop for the render just to find out it’s just 3% (for about 45 minutes!). Have a tought of going out of hotel but just can’t do it ‘coz I left my ‘clumsy-dummy-winter-clothes’ at home! I have some sweaters handy but the cold is still raging outside. Well I don’t know but.. the weather is sooo cold but there is a little (if I can’t say ‘no’) snow out here. The nature seems worser everyday. Uh.. damn, what I’ve been mumbling for? Haha.. back to topic, here’s the render. Hope you like it as I do!

Paris, here I come!

I was quite bored with the day, and hell yeah, can’t do something to knockdown the boredom inside my head. The days are just keep repeating itself, morning – wake up – take a bath – goes to campus – take a course – go home – overslept until midnight. I’m sick of it. It’s been nearly a week and a half I’ve been living this way until my grandfather told me that he have extra ticket for me to accompany him for a trip to Paris-Bordeaux.. Geez, I think I was crazy enough to not take the chance! Uh, and BTW, it’s been a long time since my last renders. Here, my first fractal iteration render..

It’s a 20 millions iterations, and while this post is still being typed, I’m still rendering the hi-quality version render with approximately 2 billions of iterations or more so it won’t as fast as the low-quality (20 millions of iterations) version. I’ll upload it when it’s done.

*UPDATE*

Here’s the hi-quality render (2 billions of iterations), and it was slightly better although it takes more time. I think 2B iterations will be my standard from now on.

 

P.S : For people who don’t really understand (or even don’t have any idea) fractal iteration rendering, you can get more informations by taking a little peek at this page.

 

Software used :

• Chaoscope for rendering iterations,
• Macromedia Fireworks 8 for finishing.

New Crytek’s CRYSIS flyover HDvid in guru3D!!

Here’s a DX10 Flyover video of Crysis, the in-game footage I personally have seen demonstrated at an NVIDIA press-conference and I know for a fact it’s running on a GeForce 8800GTX.

Crysis is a PC sci-fi first-person shooter from the award-winning developer Crytek, the developers of the critically acclaimed Far Cry (MC90).

Link : http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1528

I’ve taken a few screenshots to show you something.. all captures are in-game previews, believe me, it’s a WOW!!

Some soldiers are inspecting something burned (a tank or a dead alien it’s not clear).

 

What a nice view!!

 

 A few soldiers and a tank.. Nice dust effects!

 

 

Forest way..

 

 

Cooooool!!