Playing with Lux

Lux is Latin for 'light' and is also the preferred SI unit (International System of Units, or Système international d'unités in French, thus 'SI') of measuring luminescence, the less favoured being the lumen.


It's also a powerful hardware-driven rendering program, LuxRender, and something I've been mucking about with recently.  It's open source (and thus free) and has a number of extremely cool features.  But it's also very slow.  Have a look at these two pictures I rendered up today...

The Predictable Succubus Picture

Here's a picture I was working on a while ago: a succubus!

It's a succubus!

A lot of the character-style images I do tend to be complex and detailed.  This particular one has sections from about five different products available to users of Daz Studio 3 (which I use) and Poser (which I don't).'

Really I'm just posting it here to test out the thumbnail and hosting capabilities of the image host I'm using.

Succubi are fairly common in mythology and have been since the heydays of ancient Judaism.  Lilith was said to be Adam's first wife, who refused to remain with him and later slept with an archangel.  This somehow resulted in her becoming the first succubus (the name of which comes from a Late Latin word, succubu, which means 'strumpet' and ultimately derives from the verb cubare, 'to lie', prefixed with sub-, 'under').

Does this mean that if Lilith had taken the Archangel Samael in cowgirl style she might have become the first incubus (in-, 'on') instead?  The mind boggles...

Either way, this succubus has nice hips.  I think, anyway.

Rendered in Daz Studio 3.