HDRI by undercurrents
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Based on a tutorial about HDR images for global Illumination. I resisted the temptation to put a teapot in :)

Comments (8)
ya know, I wonder why they put the Teapot in the program at all. Ive never used it myself, and I don't think I ever will either. Unless I need Tea I guess. -RuKus
It's an odd addition alright.
Heh, the teapots just an old joke the creators love to put in there
Because it shows more interesting reflections and shape than the sphere does for demos perhaps :)
The teapot is a testrender object. From a 3D view the teapot has all the types of surfaces an object can have (seen from a mathematical viewpoint). I has an outer surface, inner surface, culing surfuce, etc. For GI renders (and normal renders), it shows all the effects lighting can have on an object. Although maybe not as interresting as a human.
there's a story about the teapot in the Max help files.the teapot is much like the cornell box,nice HDRI
HDRI is pretty impressive, the only light in this was a small spot set to specular only to get that little shinny thingy on the spheres.
Whate are some of your HDRI resources, I'd like to learn more about this.