This is a model of my wife's own chain maille weave named Lorelei that was modeled and rendered in Blender 2.71 with Cycles.
I'm still discovering the best way to model these weaves. I've tried using arrays and empties which are good for some of the simply connected weaves, but for this particular weave, it's by and large place by hand. I've also tried using rigid bodies to get the rings to sort them selves out, but ends up making the weaves not as clean looking.
The materials are custom metal BSDF but any tips on making them better would be appreciated. Lighting is a variation on rendering a Ferrari tutorial.
