A cone

Stinkie

I thought I'd let my hair down, and do something frivolous.

Gaieus

Nice. I have also (always) wanted to do one. Can I add it to your topic one baked?

TWP Designs

Nice - that looks a bit Arthur C Clarke? Is it 2001 but in 3D?

Stinkie

Csaba - Add whatever you please.

Steve - It's just a cone.

Gaieus

In the meanwhile my image is baking, I realised it's not just putting a model together, adding some background and hdri sky and setting material parameters (however easy and quick these technical details can be) but also - and mainly - there must be some extra (call it "art" if you wish but I am generally not artistic enough even to name it)

Sigh... I won't even let my puny attempt finish - some artefacts left from progressive rendering (100 passes in about 28 minutes)

And yes, they are floating ON PURPOSE but this purpose is something (again) I cannot name.

olishea

gaieus: is that a twilight?

nice image, stinkie, whatever it is!!

Gaieus

Yeah, it is. Only the sun as light source (and the sky) and a curved background with a light grey colour (never use pure white - it kills render time)