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posts/2022-05-07_dice-gallery.md

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+title: Dice Gallery
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+This is a quick gallery of some of the dice images I've made over the last few years.  These were all modeled in Blender, and rendered in Cycles.
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+The first I did just to experiment with the glass shader and volumetrics - kind of fun, I didn't really have the lighting down yet though:
+![Initial Unfinished Die](/images/dice/unfinished.png)
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+Next I played around with a few different volumetric effects - both with and without particles:
+![Trans-Final](/images/dice/Trans-Final.png)
+![Ice](/images/dice/Ice.png)
+![Radioactive](/images/dice/Radioactive.png)
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+I tried doing some stuff on the surface, but without modeling different pieces it really didn't work well:
+![Lava](/images/dice/Lava.png)
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+And then I tried putting objects \*in\* the dice - these turned out really well I think:
+![CherryTree](/images/dice/CherryTree.png)
+![Skull](/images/dice/Skull.png)
+(note: I did not model this skull - it's a CC0 model I found somewhere)
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+And more recently I've experimented a bit with emulating different materials - this silicone-ish one is the best of the lot:
+![Silicone](/images/dice/Silicone.png)