TITLE: Minuet NAME: Bruce Szablak COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bds@myhost.com TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: minuet.jpg ZIPFILE: minuet.zip RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.02 for windows TOOLS USED: Spatch, LView Pro 1.6, Texture Magic RENDER TIME: 2 hours HARDWARE USED: AMD 586 with 24mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Using a pair of dice and Mozart's rulebook for composing minuets, a composer reconstitutes one of Mozart's minuets that may never have been heard before. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Looking for some sort of inspiration for this topic, I "surfed" the Net starting with "Yahoo." There I found: "http://204.96.11.210/jchuang/Music/Mozart/mozart.cgi" Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel. A combination of an ancient form of entertainment (i.e. dice) and fine arts (music). This Web page provided me with a a GIF image of a music score for a Mozart minuet reconstituted from his rulebook. In addition, a MIDI file was also produced and is included in the "zip" file (mozart.mid). The score image became the texture map for the sheet music that is the center of the composition. I used Spatch to create the lamp, ink bottle, and pen. The actual rule book is a CSG object, as is the desk protector, dice, and glasses. I used LView Pro to add some text to the score; the text on the book was created using povray and a TrueType Font "Old English" (not included in "zip" file).