EMAIL: secretmojo@vei.net NAME: Jeremy Harris TOPIC: Old Technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Right Stuff COUNTRY: USA RENDERER USED: MacMegaPOV 1.0 TOOLS USED: POV-Ray, Art of Illusion, Poser 2.0, PhotoShop, ColorSync RENDER TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: iMac IMAGE DESCRIPTION: These weird-looking bad boys, from left to right, are: Mr. Carmagnolle, Mr. Klingert, Mr. Siebe, Mr. DaVinci, and Frank. They span a time period of dangerous underwater exploration from about 300 b.c. to the 1800s. Unfortunately, one of these test divers probably won't make it back because of a badly engineered suit. Do you know who? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I hand-coded most of it in POV-Ray, including helmets, hoses, bubbles, and all of Mr. Carmagnolle. However, I had to use the EXCELLENT Art Of Illusion program to model some of the clothes, stole and modified some body parts from poser 2.0, and used PhotoShop to create a height field for the landscape (not visible, but influences the media greatly) I wrote my own conversion program to translate obj files exported by Art of Illusion (its POV-Ray export is broken) into mesh2 .inc files. The sea warbling effect was created by applying a bumpy normal to the camera lens, and by adding an off-screen water surface that projected caustics onto the sea floor. After messing around with media for what seemed like forever, I finally stumbled upon what looked like a film grain/painterly effect (this is caused by using method 1 with some media). Since I dug it, and the topic was "Old" Technology, I intensified the noise with 2 off-screen spotlights, and got the effect you see here. The bubbles were done with a self-made macro (see bubbleblast.inc) that simulates bubbles floating upwards. Finally, I rendered in MacMegaPOV using a low recursion for anti-aliasing to keep the noise, and avoiding radiosity alltogether. I rendered from MacMegaPOV not because I used any experimental features, but because POV-Ray for the Mac (OS 9) is currently broken. So it should render with the official version on other platforms. I used ColorSync to embed an sRGB profile into the JPEG for Mac users viewing from Internet Explorer with ColorSync turned on. As a bonus, if you look at the source code, you'll find that Mr. Carmagnolle is poseable, and that there are 3 more .ini files that will render other versions I considered for sumbission, but ultimately eliminated.