Render inspired by Tron Legacy. Each block's color is averaged from next pixels. It's height is proportional with the luma channel.

129600 - "pixels" / 3dsmax's ancient singlethreaded UI is f**king annyoing, it's almost impossible to work. Had to decrease "resolution".

10s effective render time

1:50s vray scene setup

Scanline is much faster because the scene data is not converted between 3ds max and the renderer but lightning and stereo are more problematic. Must look into this more. Planned to migrate to cinema4d for this :)

See it animated in the next entry: www.flickr.com/photos/ktx/6607224153/in/set-7215762865135...