EMAIL: hildurka@simnet.is
NAME: Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir
TOPIC: Minimalism

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Stairwell
COUNTRY: Iceland
WEBPAGE: www.simnet.is/hildurka
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.5
TOOLS USED: Moray 3.5, Photoshop for brightness/contrast and title
RENDER TIME: 24h 07m 33s
HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 1800 mHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

My thoughts are about a spiral, endlessness, the idea of
seeing the abstract in the ordinary. 

I often suffer from vertigo and this is exactly the situation that makes me 
very dizzy. So to get my mind off the vertigo I focus on the abstract form
of the staircase spiralling down and away from me.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Staircase is mostly CSG, the rail is a B-spline (Mike Webers plug-in). 
I deliberatly use a reflective chrome texture for the rail to make sure it 
stands out all the way down. 
The staircase is 20 storey high, I used a 24mm camera to exaggerate the 
perspective. 
The scene is lit by one large area light and a sky sphere, high radiosity 
settings slowed down the render a bit. 
I wanted to use a reflective finish on the granite texture but due to extreme
rendering times I had to drop it.
The rail may seem bent by the setting. This is due to the viewpoint as the viewer 
isnīt placed directly above the rail and the wide camera angle seemes to exaggerates 
this.