TITLE: The First Helicopter - Leocopter
NAME: Guillermo Sanz Romero
EMAIL: famrom@ran.es
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4774/
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gr-leona.jpg
RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa
TOOLS USED: DOS Edit and Micrografx Picture Publisher 5.0
RENDER TIME: 4h 30m 18s
HARDWARE USED: PC i486DX2-66Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"Finished, now I will place this helicopter in the display cabinet." :P
"It should be called the Leocopter." :)
"Yes, maybe." :)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

At the end of Nov96 I made a list with my possible submissions for the IRTC.
The most appealing was the DaVinci's Helicopter, so I started to get images
from Internet (the portrait and the original draw, for example).
Then my HD crashed (mechanical faliure) and I was stopped during two weeks.
As consolation I managed to recover some data, as POV and my .pov/.inc files.

As time passed (two weeks can be too much) I decided to change the enviroment:
instead of a green field with a blue sky and mountains and maybe a castle in
the background (the time was critical), the Leocopter will be scaled down, so
it will become a model. Now the enviroment will be faster to generate: paints,
brushes, glues, draws with notes...
And I will be able to put the portrait.

Then I created the scene in a few days (26 to 30 Dec96).
The model was created with simple objects, the hard part is the propeller,
thats is made with a '#while' loop.

The tools are simple objects too (a lot of 'union's, some 'difference's),
the paints are 'lathe's so the glass behaves as glass.
The draws (in the cork (assembly manual) and over the cutting mat
(photocopies)) are shoots of the model, that have been processed with PP5.
The yellow note and the glue's label are 'image_map's created with PP5.
The rest of the textures are procedural (various woods, cork, plastic, metals,
even then cutting mat (two layered gradients, top one with clear parts)).

The image is 16/9 ratio, which gives a more appealing point of view IMHO (the
borders and the text where added with PP5).
If somebody wants more info email me. ;)
(In advance, the room isn't my room, when I work in a scale model, I use other
table, and it's much more untidy and dirty, with paint splashes...) ;)

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In honour of Leonardo DaVinci,
a man that maybe was born some centuries before the correct moment,
or maybe the Humankind was (and is and will be) too blind.