TITLE: Shall we Play a Game? NAME: Willem Bogaerts COUNTRY: The Netherlands, Europe EMAIL: w-p@dds.nl WEBPAGE: http://huizen.dds.nl/~w-p/ TOPIC: contrast COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: playgame.jpg ZIPFILE: playgame.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1 for DOS TOOLS USED: - "A POV-Ray Water Tutorial" by Mike Hough, which can be found at http://free.prohosting.com/~olana/povray/mediawater/mediawater.html - A program called "legocad". A friend of mine once mailed it to me as a joke, saying is was the latest and hottest CAD program around. It constructs lego structures and can save a structure in LDRAW format. It will barely run in windows 3.1 with 32 bit driver, but it works. I don't know where it comes from originally. - L3P, an Ldraw-to-Pavray converter by Lars C. Hassing. It can be found at http://www.ldraw.org/download/software/l3p - Povray 3.1 for DOS. It can be found at http://www.povray.org - LOTS of batchfiles.... RENDER TIME: 24 hours HARDWARE USED: a 40Mhz 386 PC IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I made these missiles often for jet aircraft when I was a boy. I tried the lego programs and converters and tried the model that I had made so often: a missile. I took a simple waterplane to complete the scene and that's where it originally started. I had no idea of an interesting scene; it was just a conversion test. However, I liked the result and added a second flying missile and the crashing one. Now this became interesting. Technically, because the water around the last missile should be affected by the crash. I added foam, bubbles, etc. Only after I removed a standard light and added the moon, I finally saw where this scene was going to. It was about the innocence of the child's play and the threat, no the ACT of war. About lots of tiny and even relatively innocent things that can add up to something that can destroy a planet. Yes, take a good view of the planet, while it is still there. Look at the romantic view of the moon rising above the sea. While the missiles are on their way... Well, there's your contrast. To my shame I realised that I used to make missiles much earlier in life than I loved the romantic view over the sea. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: see above. I include the total source file.