TITLE: Stairwell
NAME: Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir
COUNTRY: Iceland
EMAIL: hildurka@simnet.is
WEBPAGE: www.simnet.is/hildurka
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: stairwel.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.5, Photoshop for brightness/contrast and title

RENDER TIME: 
    24h 07m 33s

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon 1800 mHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


My thoughts are about a spiral, endlessness, the idea of
seeing the abstract in the ordinary. 

I often suffer from vertigo and this is exactly the situation that makes me 
very dizzy. So to get my mind off the vertigo I focus on the abstract form
of the staircase spiralling down and away from me.  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Staircase is mostly CSG, the rail is a B-spline (Mike Webers plug-in). 
I deliberatly use a reflective chrome texture for the rail to make sure it 
stands out all the way down. 
The staircase is 20 storey high, I used a 24mm camera to exaggerate the 
perspective. 
The scene is lit by one large area light and a sky sphere, high radiosity 
settings slowed down the render a bit. 
I wanted to use a reflective finish on the granite texture but due to extreme
rendering times I had to drop it.
The rail may seem bent by the setting. This is due to the viewpoint as the
viewer 
isn_t placed directly above the rail and the wide camera angle seemes to
exaggerates 
this.