TITLE: Titanic, lost and found. NAME: Simon de Vet COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: sdevet@istar.ca WEBPAGE: http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet TOPIC: History COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: titanic3.jpg RENDERER USED: POVray TOOLS USED: Moray, spatch, blob editor, leveller, gforge RENDER TIME: 2m56s for parse, 27m00s for render (surprisingly quick, really) HARDWARE USED: Pentium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Titanic, lying on the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland. This is, specifically the broken end of the bow section (about halfway down the length of the ship) on the starboard side. The room behind the windows used to be the gymnasium. The structure on the deck, to the right was a lifeboat davit, now broken, missing the arm. This is, more or less, accurate. I did not render each rusticle in the proper places, but the railings, davit, hole, etc are all there on the real ship today. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Probably my most ambitious project to date. The lower hull is simple CSG. Nothing too fancy. The drooping hull plates are sPatch objects. The sand is made of about a half dozen heightfields. The upper half of the hull is entirely made in sPatch, in many layers. This was by far the hardest work, and took up about half (or more) of the creation time. The davit is a combination of bevelled translational sweeps, a little CSG, and some more sPatch. There are 4 kinds of rusticles. The big ones in the windows are blobs made in Blob Editor (two models, rotated and combined to look different). Rusticles flowing down the walls were made using the Colefax's liquid spray plugin. Rusticles attached to sPatch objects are sPatches themselves, for ease of placement. Finally, some little rusticles in the distance and on the davit are just cones. The dust in the water is a media. My first try with this, and while it didn't look as I had planned, I like it! -- ** I kept getting errors while uploading, so I did not include the zip file. If anyone wants a copy, e-mail me at sdevet@istar.ca and I'll send it happily. Or else look at my web site, at http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet, and I'll have it posted there, under modelling. Sorry :( I would like to thank: - Robert Ballard, whose book "Exploring the Titanic" (a kid's book, actually.. I've had it for a while) served as a reference. - The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, whose info about the wreck served to inspire and educate. - Gilles Tran, who's pics (http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html) served to inspire me to resume the pic, after I had abandoned it. - The fine folks of povray.binaries.images, who gave some very, very last minute advice that really improved the pic. I loved making this pic, and I think it was worth the effort, prize or (more likely) no prize :) Whee! - Simon, 04/30/99