EMAIL: exether@demo.xandmail.com
NAME: Jean-Charles Marteau
TOPIC: Old Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Graphic technology
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: Under construction
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: GIMP
RENDER TIME:
HARDWARE USED: PII 400MHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I always think we tend to limit history to the last few thousand years
when not the last few centuries. I think this is unfair as many many
things we have today come from remote ages, from fire, language to the
animals and plants that where domesticated some 10000 years ago and that
feed us.

So, this picture represents the ancestor technology of what we all do
with graphics : ancient art.
I added the Povray logo as a link to the modern graphic technologies as
if the painter had foreseen it.

It is a humble homage to all these great anonymous people.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The cave is a height field, it took quite some time to have in the
correct position, but now it is (or so I hope).

It is textured with various animals from the Lascaux cave (prepared with
GIMP) and a Povray logo made with Povray.

The oil lamps and paint pots are CSGs, the flame is an emiting media object.

The branches where made with the famous maketree macro from Chris Colefax.

The lighting where made with the Light System macros from Jaime Vives
Piqueres.