EMAIL: dom.rossi@wanadoo.fr NAME: Dominique Rossi TOPIC: Museum - december 2004 COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: My Texture Museum COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: No web page RENDERER USED: < povray 3.6 > TOOLS USED: No tools Thanks to the creator of venus.inc RENDER TIME: 4 hours HARDWARE USED: PC 1 GHZ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: ----------------- Museum is for me a large - infinite - building with high walls and labyrinthic corridors. The atmosphere generated by these complex perspectives is really the most important for me, more than the objects themselves. So, I spent many time in conceiving and building the walls, ceilings, and perspectives issues. I choose a camera position and rotation that reveal 3 main directions - X, Y and Z. The perspective is completed with additional corridors and overview to others circular halls. Le thème "musée " evoque pour moi une immense - infinie - construction avec de hauts murs et des couloirs labyrinthiques. L'ambiance générée par des perspectives complexes est pour moi l'aspect le plus important de ces espaces, plus que l'importance des objets exposés. Ainsi , j'ai consacré un maximum d'effort sur l'architecture en choisissant un point de vue avec 3 points de fuite pricipaux . Des couloirs additionnels ( à 45°) et des apperçus sur d'autres halls circulaire complètent l'ambiance. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: ------------------------------------------ I just use geometrical shapes combinated with basic CSG operators. The global effect of complex structure is obtained by the multiplication of basic objects with multiple loops in the museum.pov file. I prefered this technic because it's easier to make global adjustments with parametrics value. I think I'd have more difficulties with an object generator. The tricks used in this pictures are : - A surround mirror to make the scene deepest with few objects - A rotation of camera to create 3 axis perspective. - Use of random function and macros to generate variants of objects (pictures on the walls, sphere textures). - A file wich contains names of pictures files. You can add file names in this file to increase the variety of wall images.