TITLE: Old Barn
NAME: Serge van Gessel
COUNTRY: Netherlands
EMAIL: gessel@wanadoo.nl
TOPIC: Decay
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: oldbarn.jpg
RENDERER USED:
  PovRay 3.5

TOOLS USED:
  Blender 2.27
  3DWin
  raw2pov

RENDER TIME: 
  22h 36min

HARDWARE USED:
  Pentium III 733 MHZ, 386MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
  An old forgotten studebaker spending its last days in an old barn.
  Somebody tried to fix it but has given up on it. Now this beauty is
  gathering rust and dust for the rest of its days.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
  This is my first posting for the IRTC. The idea started during one of
  the previous rounds (old technology) but I never came any further than
  the creation of the meshmodel of the car. Fortunately the car found its
  way into the current topic so my efforts have not been wasted ;o).

  All objects in this scene (except the sky sphere) are mesh-modelled in
  Blender and converted to PovRay with 3dWIN and Raw2Pov (Next time I'll
  use PovAnim for direct Blender-to-PovRay conversion). Textures (all
  procedural), lights and atmosphere are defined in PovRay.

  The car was created during an earlier attempt. It looked like a brand
  new, glossy model which just arrived from the factory. I gave the car a
  few extra years of age by stirring the vertices a little and adding rusty
  textures.

  The barn was modelled after a photograph. I liked it very much and so I
  wanted to recreate it in Blender and PovRay. Lots of triangles, radiosity,
  arealights and atmospheric media did the job. It took weeks to get the
  right effect because calculation times with media and radiosity are
  painfully slow.

  When the barn and the car were ready I added some extra stuff, spiderwebs
  and a landscape. After that I merged everything into one scene, adjusted
  some of the media, light and texture parameters and finally hit the render
  button with HQ-settings for radiosity. Cooking time for the final picture
  on my P733 MHZ was 22 hours and 36 minutes.