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An attempt to model an alpine/himalayan inspired mineral group.
E. g. Adular, Smoky Quartz & Apatite.

Playing with textures.

TopMod - Meshlab - Blender - Luxrender.

The render is incomplete - nevertheless it took 2 days.
I interrupted it though as the scene wasn't satisfying. It's hard to take good pictures of minerals but it's also hard to get a good render. Also the materials didn't turn out the way I wanted - the pinkish apatite was intended to have a 'cloudy' inside.

With my current setup it takes several hrs though for the scene to reveal texture details - so tweaking them isn't possible. So that's it with this one.

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*bronze4u Feb 11, 2013 Professional Artist

Pretty good rendering, but it does look fake still.. maybe a bit more work on the white area?

~Schmiegel Feb 12, 2013

Thank you, yes - it actually lacks all the surface patterns & bumps crystals normally would have.

=Jason-C Jan 29, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is awesome, I used to collect minerals when I was a kid, looking at this makes me flash back to being obsessed over all the interesting colours and shapes of crystals.

~Schmiegel Jan 30, 2013

I'm still obsesse

Thank you!

~Orange-1 Jan 14, 2013

Fantastic!

~Schmiegel Jan 14, 2013

Thank you

*nic022 Jan 14, 2013

Excellent, shapes and materials

~Schmiegel Jan 14, 2013

Thanks!

~LuxXeon Jan 13, 2013 Student Digital Artist

PS: If you want, I could either try to help you render this by sending me the Lux files I'd need to continue from this point (.flm I think). I have 16 cores available for rendering.

~Schmiegel Jan 14, 2013

Thank you, that's very kind of you!
If I redo it to be really happy with the results I'll definitely consider that!

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