TITLE: DBs Tiles
NAME: David Bridge
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: dbridge.lockedon@fsmail.net
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dbstiles.jpg
ZIPFILE: dbstiles.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows V3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray - to create 'The Shape', and for camera placement.

RENDER TIME: 
    6 mins.

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD 900MHz, 128M RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Definition of contrast (Oxford English dictionary): "In the visual arts, the
juxtaposition of different forms, colours, etc., to heighten the total
effect."

When I first started this project I was thinking about some of M.C. Eschers
images which slowly change from black to white. Once I had created a basic
shape, which I could tessellate, I played around with many monochrome textures
but was never really satisfied with them. With the introduction of colour a
more pleasing image became available.

Nothing too complex in the code; a couple of loops to place the tiles in a 10 x
10 matrix and the random number generator function to mix up the colours - just
change the seed and generate your own, unique, wallpaper!

I've had to reduce the image size to 590x442 to make the final image fit into
the 250Kb size restriction. I guess the constantly changing colours impact upon
the compression of the jpg algorithm.