TITLE: MMOCA - the Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art
NAME: Mark K. Akita
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: mkakita@juno.com
TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mmoca.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows, Anim8or, PoseRay, Project Dogwaffle

RENDER TIME: 
    5m 13s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Mobile Athlon 1.2 ghz PC

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An interior view of one small corner of the totally fictitous Metropolitan
Museum of Contemporary Art.  I based the MMOCA on a recent visit to the San
Francisco MOMA and on the exhibits in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA. 
I originally tried doing an interpretation of the "Museum" theme as a view from
the inside of the Museum of Unnatural History, with various fossilized and
preserved invertebrate creatures.  I made some visully interesting models, but
the whole picture seemed more like a science lab than a museum exhibit, so I
restarted with modern art in mind.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The models were created using Anim8or, exported to 3DS format, and converted to
POV using PoseRay.  The painted textures were created using Project Dogwaffle. 
I did some tweaking of the materials and added some appopriate lighting in the
POV editor.