EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com NAME: Robert J Becraft TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: White Queen COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.5 TOOLS USED: PSP for copyright, Irfvan32 (convert to jpg), POSER 3 for the woman, UVMAPER & OBJ2POV (figure conversion) RENDER TIME: 3 hours 57 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 433 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The queen stands alone in the royal audience chamber. Empty of people, loneliness at the top. The image is intended to evoke this type of loneliness and also has a number of metaphores to tingle the veiwer's senses... notice that the floor is 8x8 grids (chess-boards), the king's chair is overturned... symbolic of how one resign's a chessgame. The pillars for the daiz approach are like pawns. The hall was created large to emphasize its being empty. Some scale is given through the railings on the balcony over the far wall. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Created the space and vaulting of the ceilings. Added detail to each component in the scene Created the figure, crown, necklace and ring are all done in POV, applied to the figure by hand Lighting was the toughest... radiosity was also attempted, however, it pushed the render time to 4+ days. Challenges... using a single light to light the hall gives a smooth finish to all the objects in the scene. Using actual light sources at the point of origin (i.e. in the light fixtures), created the interesting patterns on the ceiling, walls and floors. Would this space actually light in that fashion, I'm not entirely sure. Respectfully submitted, Robert J Becraft