EMAIL: cguillem@wanadoo.fr NAME: Claude GUILLEMOT TOPIC: old technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: modern times COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: www.archeofiction.com RENDERER USED: MacMegaPOV 1.0 TOOLS USED: MacMegaPOV 1.0, photoshop RENDER TIME: 40' HARDWARE USED: MAC G4 450 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: as soon as I read the announcement of the new topic, I dreamed this picture : a reconstitution of the factory in the Chaplin's movie " MODERN TIMES". This association - modern times, old technology - can appear like a paradox. It is for me an exemplary demonstration of this simple idea : all technology, even the more futurist, becomes more or less quickly, an old technology . To complete the design I added the vision of old movie technology. (it was truly an hard work to found the visual documentation for the modelling of the movie camera... a Bell & Howell 35mm, that was really used by chaplin in the years 30) Describe an image is never "une partie de plaisir" (a picnic in english ?) . Try to describe in english, for me, it's a torture...please, dont judge my words ! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Nothing especial. Everything was hand coded directly in megaPOV (helped with the multy-copy function ...) I choosed to use only black and white textures for the background... For lightning, I used spot-lights, and white planes (ambient 0,8), like for a movie...