TITLE: Het achterhuis NAME: Fabien MOSEN COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking) EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com WEBPAGE: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/chkpage.htm TOPIC: HISTORY COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: achter.jpg RENDERER USED: POV 3.1e TOOLS USED: sPatch, Corel, RENDER TIME: 3 hours HARDWARE USED: AMD K6/233 - 128 Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Holland, 1942. Anne Frank (14) and her family, being Jews and wanting to avoid being sent to concentration camps (they knew very well what these camps were), with the help of one on the father's employees, had to hide themselves in an "achterhuis" (backhouse), which was built at the back of a pretty normal house. The achterhuis comprised several rooms, and was linked to the house by a secret bookshelf that was in fact a door. While they lived hidden, Anne, the younger girl, started to write a diary, where she was writing letters to a fictious "Kitty", to who she told everything about how they lived, her feelings... August 4, 1944, the nazis discovered their hiding place, and they were sent in concentration camps where all the family died (killed, or victims of epidemy). Anne died in march 1945, only a few days before the camps were liberated. Only her father, Otto Frank, survived. After the end of the war, he found the diary and published it. The diary is a unique testimony about what the Jews (and everyone who has to hide) could feel, how they lived in that situation. The particular point of view, in the diary of a young girl, makes the book amazing and poignant. For more complete information : www.annefrank.com The image is an attempt to recreate Anne's room, where she slept, and where she wrote her diary, on a small desk. important note : this image is an *illustration*; while it was seriously documented, time constraints and variations amongst the source docs prevent it to be absolutely accurate; so, again, it's just an ILLUSTRATION. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: - bought and read the book. While I was aware of it, I never had the opportunity to read it. As I said before, it is amazing. - a few days after I bought the book, I've been informed that an Anne Frank exhibition will be held in my city between March and April. Great ! I had the opportunity to collect every information I was missing, especially about the room itself. - I had to do "reverse" perspective : extracting actual dimensions from a photograph. Glad I learned perpective in school ! - everything else is patient modelling job : curtain and magazines on the shef are HF's cushion and bedsheets are sPatch modelling everything else is CSG The deadline is near, and I don't have the time to explain too much detail ! Also, I don't see anything that needs too much explanation ;) If you still want to know something else, write me !