TITLE: Eiffel Tower Phone
NAME: Mael
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: maelstro@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Old technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ml_phone.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    (a patched version of) PovRay 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    spline macro by Chris Colefax

RENDER TIME: 
    one night

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP 1800+, 256 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A replica of 1892's LM Ericsson model


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


-Modeling/Composition : 
http://www.theoldtelephone.co.uk/images/Magneto/16_facing_rt1.jpg
http://www.amradios.com/pictures/cr-689.jpg
http://www.sandman.com/images/oldphone1.jpg
Modeling of the phone with superellipsoid, cylinder, torus, etc.. and spline
macro by Chris Colefax (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/)
for the phone cord. The eiffel tower is a free mesh found on the web
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/fr/ludique/visite/3D/index_comp.html

-Textures :
simple metals, and a plastic with a small amount of blurred reflection to 
get highlights

-Lightning :
quick lightning using only an HDR image (the kitchen probe from Paul Debevec
http://www.debevec.org/Probes/)

-Rendering :
two-pass radiosity. 1st pass without reflections (count 1000, error_bound .08)
Focal blur for background, and +AM2 +A0.2 for the phone (the antialiasing of 
the focal blur rendered image was not looking good for the foreground)