TITLE: High Fidelity & Low Fidelity NAME: Fabien MOSEN COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking) EMAIL: fabien.mosen@skynet.be WEBPAGE: http://www.pov-monde.org TOPIC: CONTRAST COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: fmcontr.jpg ZIPFILE: fmcontr.zip RENDERER USED: MEGA-Pov 0.6 TOOLS USED: CorelDraw! RENDER TIME: 8 hours. HARDWARE USED: PC with Celeron 633, 128 Mb. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 20 years ago, you could listen to fine music on fine record playing equipment. Nowadays, the future of music seems to be toyish mp3 stuff, but since the music is bad as well, who cares ? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Very straightforward work, with some special features : - the blue moquette is an isosurface, two sine function with some noise. - the specific highlight on the record is made with 4 layered normals, 2 that gives a slope equivalent to a cone, and 2 that uses some kind of ripples with a chaotic slope_map to give some variations, while avoiding the aliasing problems that would occur if I simply made a normal to simulate the groove. - all cables are made with little cylinders along "alternative syntax" splines. - the record sleeves are made with 2 height_fields linked by 3 flattened cylinders - the mp3 player is mainly a blob with 4 components. - wood textures are made with colormaps "scanned" from real wood images (using 'eval_pigment' function) The turntable doesn't exist as such, it's made from various existing ones, the arm pivot being highly inspired by the one in my Rega Planar 2. The "Barbie mp3" doesn't exist (not yet, at least), you can calm down your young daughters ! The speakers exists, and are B&W DM5, a 1973 model. The amplifier doesn't exist, and the "DNA" logo is a spoof on the "NAD" excellent amplifiers brand.