EMAIL: sshelby@shelbyvision.com NAME: Steve Shelby TOPIC: Minimalism COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: 3eggs COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: shelbyvision.com RENDERER USED: POVray 3.5 TOOLS USED: POVray, Moray, Corel Photopaint RENDER TIME: 11 min 11 sec HARDWARE USED: P4 2gh 256mb RAM Windows XP IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A scene of extreme simplicity, three white eggs on a white plate. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: My goal was to make a minimalist scene, rather than a scene about minimalist art. I used POVray almost entirely, using Moray mostly for figuring out the textures, and PhotoPaint for editing image maps and converting the scene to jpg. The eggs were made using the Assymetrical Scaling Macro, by Julius Klatte. The scene was so simple to make that I had plenty of time to experiment with textures and lighting. I used radiosity and area lights in an attempt to make it look as realistic as possible. The table is an image map made from a photo of the same old unvarnished walnut table that I work at on my laptop. I also used image maps of the room, in order to add color in the reflections on the plate. I used area lights of slightly varying color and placed them where the windows would be in the room. I used a granite gradient normal map on the eggs to get the slightly rough texture of the eggshells, with very rough texture on the ends, which I noticed was a common occurrance on the eggs I looked at. I set the antialias depth to 6, to make sure that the subtle texture of the eggshells would be fully visible.