EMAIL: shay@simcoparts.com NAME: Shay TOPIC: Surrealism COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Venue COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 Linux TOOLS USED: calculator, paper, pencil RENDER TIME: parse 6sec render 4min 37sec HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 1.2G IMAGE DESCRIPTION: How a building full of people is perceived during a waking moment of extreme dislocation and impulse towards random acts of violence. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Anyone who has seen some of my other images knows that I prefer to create very technical pictures. This image is no exception. Over 1000 lines of code were needed to create this. Not the multi-meg file of my last entry, but somewhat complex nonetheless. I stared by calculating the silhouette of an imagined building based on my height, the size of the building, and a selected view point. I then sketched the silhouette and separated the shape by portioning the spaces into areas which represented a very basic, feral idea of a building full of people, with lines both reflecting the shape of the building as well as suggesting the structure and interior. Then came the more difficult part. I did not want to guess or approximate the positions of my divisions, so I devised a set of logical steps which Povray could follow in order to see the image the same way that I had and divide the space as I had on the paper, only this time without the human weaknesses of inaccurate measurement or my poor sketching skills. The black lines are shadows produced by no_image objects in a light group with the mesh silhouette. The red lines are cylinders with no light and >0 gamma.