TITLE: Dollar NAME: Noe Falzon COUNTRY: France EMAIL: noe.falzon@tiscali.fr TOPIC: Decay COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: nf_dolla.jpg ZIPFILE: nf_dolla.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Photoshop (to darken the sky image), MacMegaPov (for a part of the modelling) RENDER TIME: About a minute HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2GHz running Windows XP IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Money power. The last step in human decay. In a world where everything has a cost, a money value, we could see banknotes everywhere in our everyday life... Each thing is money, and money is everything. Sad isn't it ? We see a night scene showing anyone's house and car, made of banknotes. The moon enlights the surrounding trees and sneak into the house through a window, to draw a pale shape on the ground. The open door probably leads to another part of the world, where everything is also covered with money. Maybe only the moon and the deep universe isn't money anymore... But who knows ? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All the walls of the house are simple CSG operations. The table is a cylinder, three sphere sweeps and a torus. The vase is a lathe, and the flower is a sphere sweep and a few cylinders. The lamp is a stupid cone with another lathe. The car and the trees are meshes found on the web. The moon is a sphere enlighted by a specific light source. The most difficult part in this image was to put good lights. There are two light sources from the lamp : one that draws the hyperboloid on the wall, and the other that gives the greenish tint the the room. The light which is supposed to come from the moon is not actually centered on the sphere, but a few distance away from it, so the light going through the windows reaches the middle of the room. Finally, the slight fog is added to ake the trees apparent more than they were without. Tous mes meilleurs sentiment _ tout le POV-monde, _ ses menbres et leurs conseils avis_s !