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- EMAIL: ptdawson@voicenet.com
- NAME: Paul T. Dawson
- TOPIC: Flight
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
- TITLE: Abstract
- COUNTRY: U.S.A.
- WEBPAGE: http://www.voicenet.com/~ptdawson
- RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for MS-DOS
- TOOLS USED: DOS Edit
- RENDER TIME: About 15 hours
- HARDWARE USED: AMD 486-120
- IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An abstract picture of a bird in flight
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
- From November 1st to December 29th, I procrastinated, and started
- several scenes, but didn't work on *finishing* any of them. On December
- 30th, I just gave up (!) and went to the beach (65 degrees and sunny!).
- On returning home, I found the e-mail about the EXTENDED deadline!
- Well, then I went into a complete beyond-the-last-minute-rush, and
- created this scene. It's, um, different --- if you want to give this
- picture about 3 points, don't worry, I'll understand! 8-)
-
- The scene is created in three passes.
-
- In PASS-1.POV, there is a simple sky_sphere. This is rendered at 640x480,
- and then the bottom half is cut off (in a paint program). This gives a
- file called PASS-1.TGA, which is 640x240 pixels. Total time for that is
- just about one half hour.
-
- Then, in PASS-2.POV, that picture is image_mapped onto a group of large
- pyramid shapes. There are several other things in PASS-2.POV, including
- a large "bird" with sine-wave-wings, a checkerboard height_field floor,
- five spotlights, and a type-1 atmosphere. It's all very abstract! That
- scene takes about 8 hours to render, at 800x600, with AA set to 2x2.
-
- Well, the PASS-2.TGA file is quite impressive, but the background was
- rather dark. So, in PASS-3.POV, we take out the plain "Coral-Crackle"
- background, and replace it with PASS-2.TGA. To jumble things up a bit,
- the new backdrop is rotated upside down and backwards. Everything else in
- the scene stays the same. That takes about 6.5 hours to render, also at
- AA 2x2, and then convert it to a JPG, and call it ABSTRACT.JPG - done!
-
- All of the POV files are very small. This isn't like last time, when I had
- about 40 source files! This entry is just a [pathetic?] last minute thing!
-
- Thanks for reading all this! 8-) P.T.D.
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