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White Corian® material

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:18 pm
by bjorn.syse
Hi,

I'm trying to reproduce the white Corian® material called "antarctica". What do you think?

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- Björn

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:44 pm
by numerobis
very cool! looks like corian! 8) the color fits ...but maybe a bit too translucent and too regular for "antarctica"

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...atm. for me it's more looking like "Ice White" :wink:

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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:32 pm
by bjorn.syse
You're right, I'll take the tranlucency down a notch. However, I have a real piece right here, and when I hold it up to the light one can see that it does have some SSS in there. However, not as much as in that render though..

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:49 pm
by numerobis
yes, i have them here too :wink: that was my reference.
the fotos above look slighty different to the real thing... and as i said, it already looks very good to me!

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:21 am
by bjorn.syse
Ah, I see :) thanks! Here is an updated version with only 15% SSS component impact. (The first one had 30%)

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It has to cook some more though, but I'll update it as it progress... Thanks for your feedback!

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:32 am
by zoppo
looks great , but it's more snowy than antarctica.
antarctica got bigger chunks.

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:38 am
by bjorn.syse
I'm not sure.. The piece I have got is 10x10cm, and is called Antarctica (F). I've used it for the scan, and as a matter of fact - the test render above has got about three times as BIG chunks than my test piece calls for.

This is the scan of the 10cm test piece:


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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:52 am
by Mihai
Looks really good! Maybe slightly increased contrast in the map.

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:11 am
by bjorn.syse
Thanks Mihai.

Some constrast is not a bad idea at all. This is a photoshopped version of the render with constrast added:

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:29 am
by bjorn.syse
zoppo wrote:looks great , but it's more snowy than antarctica.
antarctica got bigger chunks.
Zoopy, I think you're right.. I have been using real scale within maxwell studio without having the appropriate projectors set up, which didn't give me any "real scale" at all. The flakes should be larger relative to the scene they're in.

Here's an update with a bit more proper flake-size and adjusted constrast aswell:

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Thanks

- Björn

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:37 am
by tom
You're getting there. ;)

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:51 pm
by bjorn.syse
I think so too!

Latest update: I've taken down the roughness a bit, to give a more defined highlight and the look of a "harder" material.


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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:54 pm
by Maximus3D
I have no clue what type of material this is in the real world, but your results are still looking good! somehow the earlier versions with the small shiny sparkles reminds me a bit of the snow material i made a while back. :)

/ Max

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:08 pm
by -Adrian
Yeah, looks very believable. Nice one!

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:28 pm
by numerobis
Yes, looks very good now! 8)