TITLE: Clich_ NAME: Jo_o Paulo Silva COUNTRY: PORTUGAL EMAIL: jpgargoyle@sapo.pt WEBPAGE: none TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cliche.jpg ZIPFILE: cliche.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: irfan view v3.70 to convert to jpg CopyRightLeft 0.4 Beta to add copyright notice RENDER TIME: 2 hours 32 minutes 41.0 seconds (9161 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Pentim IV 1.60GHz 128Mb Ram (w/ Win2k sp2) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is my first IRTC entry ever. I've been willing to enter IRTC for a long time but due to lack of time it wasn't possible sooner. This time I decided to enter with this image, that everibody might have think of or seen with lots of variations. That's why this one is called "clich_". I think this is an universal idea or something like that: lots of look alike objects with one different in the middle. NOTE: the sphere is black just to make a bigger contrast in the middle of the cubes. It could have been any other color. I am not trying to make statements about racism or something like that. Just trying to show that you can be lonely even in the middle of lots of people. NOTE2: the pic lost some quality (noticed around the sphere) when I converted it to jpg so I included a .png version in the zip file. Check it out if you want to. Thnxs DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The geometry is as easy as it can be, a plane, cubes and a sphere. The cubes are set using a double loop leaving an empty space at the origin to put the sphere there. The camera has a slight tilt to make the image more interesting. Took me about ten minutes to write and adapt the floor texture from another one I have and one week to play with the radiosity settings and object textures. Ended up using a copy of the radiosity tutorials "best settings". I am not happy at all with it but I don't have the time to improve it so.. :P Hope you like it.