TITLE: Geometry NAME: Samuel J. Goldstein COUNTRY: The country you are a citizen of EMAIL: libelle@webbwerks.com WEBPAGE: http://www.cyberverse.com/~meander TOPIC: Math & Physics COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: geo.jpg ZIPFILE: geo.zip RENDERER USED: POV-ray 3.01 TOOLS USED: Photoshop RENDER TIME: 5 hours 6 minutes 46.0 seconds HARDWARE USED: Powermac 8500/180MP IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Geometry is the mystical place where mathematics becomes Interesting. This is a tip of the (virtual) hat to the anonymous Islamic artists of ages past, who did beautiful, complicated things using simple geometric rules. It's an attempt to show the pure, conceptual image transcending the physical representation on paper. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It's extremely simple. It's all height_maps and image_maps, with a small handful of lighting thrown in. I tried to do it "for real" by programming the geometrical rules for the arabesque directly as a POV-ray iteration, but I ran out of patience (then memory). And I was only trying a very simple pattern. I haven't given up yet, but I wasn't going to make the deadline, so I did it this way.