TITLE: elements NAME: N.B. COUNTRY: Finland EMAIL: beliaev@utu.fi WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/7241/ TOPIC: elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: nb_el01.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 TOOLS USED: see text RENDER TIME: a few hours, don't remember, sorry HARDWARE USED: Pentium/166/32MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Since I was not especially good at chemistry, and not especially thrilled with neither western nor eastern elements of the universe, at first I decided to skip this round. Then one message on the IRTC mailing list caught my attention. When discussing the current topic, Nazrat Durand wrote: "And, near and dear to our raytracing hearts, the basic elements of Constructive Solid Geometry!" Thank you Nazrat. That's what gave me the idea of the present image. But I decided to extend the idea a bit by including not only the POV-Ray's native solid primitives (like spheres, cones, etc.) but also the triangular meshes. As you might remember, in POV-Ray triangular meshes are not solids, and thus can not be used in CSG (except for the 'union'). However, I also wanted to visualize the structure of some of triangular meshes in terms of POV-Ray solid elements. So I wrote a simple program to convert meshes created with Rhino 1 Beta into unions of spheres and cylinders. Besides, how could I omit such an essential element as a checkerboard floor? Basically, you can also find the traditional elements (like fire, water, metal, etc.) in the present picture. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: A large part of this was hand-coded in POV-Ray. The imported objects were: 1. the ones that look like "triangular meshes", 2. pink armchair, stone vases, tennis racket, curtains. All the meshes were created in Rhino. The picture on the wall is not a fractal, but an image made in POV-Ray (cones following two spirals). Adding normal to the camera created a sort of "surreal look". AA was kept 0.2, (kinda compromise) to allow better detalization. Sorry I did not include the source file as it was over 4MB in the zipped form. If you are interested in the source of this image please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, N.B.