Crystalline Rocks Gems Jewelry and Optical Effects

off to the beach, i'll be back in a few hours to answer your questions and comments.

I mean...like WOW!

glad you enjoyed it!

Nice.

We visited NYC once for the Natural History Museum. Much as I dont like cities, their room of minerals and rare jewels was breathtaking.

at 2:22 shows the shape that may have inspired the Washington Monument.


Opals fascinate me. I like them lighter-colored.


below a chrysoprase cabochon bought at a gem show and made in into earrings.

in Oscar Wilde's play Salome, chrysoprase is mentioned. I was curious about it and saw it in real life, like it a lot.

moonstones.... I had a faceted moonstone. They are usually rounded cabochons. Was a gift for someone born in June.

All so beautiful. Thanks for sharing OP! :)

In a rush, just logging on & off.

Am waiting to hear some Magical Icaro Shamanic music from you.

Hey Opee, i worked in a gold mine in NV back in the 90’s. Long story short, we were 1500 feet below surface and the drills hit a void bigger rhan the drift we were chasing. When we broke through it was the most incredible thing i have ever seen. I’m sure you’re familiar with Geodes right? Imagine a Geode with a 30 foot diameter with crystalline gold throughout! It was breathtaking. They wiped it out and mashed it to powder. .... they got alit of gold that day....

“Off to the beach for a few hours?” Then why the fuck are you starting a thread?

Wow, those are yours?! Love them! :)

I like to do 3D rendering in Blender.. Actually right now im doing some test renders of diamonds. The render engine cant do those caustics effects well, but it can do the other stuff pretty well, it tries to simulate chromatic aberration, reflective and refractive caustics, dispersion, bokeh depth of field and camera effects.

Here is the link to the test renders im doing right now.
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Thanks.. Had these for a while. Local Crystal Shop (Heaven and Nature) used to out to the Tucson Az Gem and mineral show every year. She would take pics then have geodes and crystals shipped back to Pa. There is a lot of Woo in my home. Those who meditate mention this before they even enter the place.

awesome, i love going through mineral museums, some great stuff there.

oh that chrysoprase is just lovely!

you are most welcome, happy you enjoyed it!

they say ATLANTIS had a crystal power source

that's a gigantic CHUNK of quartz crystal!

sweet collection!

so you could make this pissy comment, apparently.

in a sense.. atlantis used crystals to transduce power into the physical realm as an access point to source.

It frickin heavy too..

Wheeee

as a blender artist myself (very n00b) i went ahead and took a look at your spectral render testing link.

nice progression there, bud!

i like how you managed to resolve the flat front face shader, that's good stuff..

whooop whooop!!

i believe it!

i don't have chunks that massive, but i have backpacked out 50lb chunks from the crystal caves creek near where i live and it doesn't take much to get heavy fast.

Loved it!