TITLE: Colours
NAME: Brett Dickson
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: brett.dickson@gmail.com
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: colour.jpg
ZIPFILE: colour.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    The GIMP (conversion of image to JPEG)

RENDER TIME: 
    115 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    HP/Compaq nx9010 laptop (3.06 GHz Pentium 4)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

For this topic, I have attempted to crate a ray-traced minimalist image of
colour.  Following the best minimalist principles and concepts that I could
find, the image has been striped of everything but the most basic of elements
needed to convey the idea of primary colours and how they can be combined to
create meny different colours.   


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Each "pool" of light is constructed from three spot lights - one for each for
red, green and blue.  Fall off and focus effects are used to cause the colours
to blend where the spot lights overlap.  A small random offset is applied to
each spot light to create the desired effect.  The lights are pointed at a
while plane with an ambient light value set to zero so that all unlit areas
appear as part of the background.