Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on July 3, 2006
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I spent most of last week catching up on my multi-monitor renders. I’ve posted dual and triple screen versions of “Flora”, “Enclosure (2006)”, and “Undiscovered”. “Episteme” will have to wait until a new version of Apophysis allows me to render at 4800 x 1200 (I get out of memory errors with the current version). “Verdure” will have to wait until my new workstation arrives (see 6/27 post). A tri-screen render on my current machine would probably take 2 weeks to complete.
For you single monitor users I’ve added a night version of “Undiscovered”. I know some of you mentioned that the day version was a little bright, so hopefully this one will work better for you.
Happy 4th to all of my American members!
Posted on June 27, 2006
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I’ve been saying for the past year that my workstation has been getting old (I’ve had it almost 4 years now). Yesterday I finally ordered myself a new one. All of my previous machines have been Dells, but I decided to go with a Boxx 8300 this time around (they offered the Quadro FX 5500 where Dell only had 4500s available). If you are interested in the specs, here they are. The new system should ship in a couple of weeks.
FYI: The Boxx website is here. They have a referral program going so if you purchase a machine from them they will give you 5% off your online order (enter the coupon code “BOXXREWARDS” and my userid “DIGITALBLASPHEMY”).
- The multi-screen version of “Undiscovered” should be up later today.
Posted on June 25, 2006
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Added “Undiscovered” to the gallery this evening. I hope to have a multi-screen version available shortly.
I must apologize to those of you running mult-monitors. For whatever reason, I haven’t been very good about rendering wallpapers for you recently. I plan on doing multi-screen versions of “Flora”, “Enclosure” and “Verdure” ASAP. “Episteme” will have to wait until a new version of “Apophysis” which can handle higher resolution renders. Thanks for being patient!
Posted on June 18, 2006
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As I mentioned last time, I wanted to make some changes to “Verdure”. I didn’t feel the original was green enough so I tweaked some of the textures (made the leaves more translucent and the undergrowth more green). I also increased the volumetric quality a little. What had been a four day render became a seven day render. Ouch! Anyway, the new version is up now on the new images page. I hope it was worth it.
I think I will probably work on something new now, rather than wait another week for a multi-monitor version to render. Hopefully I can get to it soon.
Happy Fathers Day to all you dads out there!