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- TITLE: First Historian
- NAME: Al Vara
- COUNTRY: USA
- EMAIL: avara@pil.net
- WEBPAGE: none
- TOPIC: History
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
- JPGFILE: 1st_hist.jpg
- ZIPFILE: 1st_hist.zip
- RENDERER USED:
- Povray 3.0 for DOS
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- TOOLS USED:
- Corel 5.0 Win, Moray 2.5 for DOS, Terrain Maker 2.0 DOS
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- RENDER TIME:
- 1 Hour 9 Minutes 18 Seconds
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- HARDWARE USED:
- 486DX100, 8 MB RAM
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
- The first image that popped into my head was ancient cave
- drawings. Some early human invented history by recording where the herd
- grazed.
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
- This is my third entry and I am
- starting to get smarter in not trying to do things my poor little 486
- can't handle.
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- A hand drawing in Terrain Maker created the cave. A hidden roof was needed to
- control the lighting. A drawing of the animals were laid in as a layered
- texture
- onto the cave walls. The man's shape was generated using the instructions in
- the book "Ray Tracing Worlds with POV-RAY". This made articulating the pose
- easy. Clothing is a patch and the hair is a sweeped shapes, with a lot of
- attention to their texture. Lastly, I could not resist building a fire.
- Simple cylinder logs didn't look good till I added a bed of glowing ashes.
- The halo tutorials in the POV-RAY 3.0 User Documentation got me through the
- problems in making flames and smoke. The rest was time consuming tweaking.
- I really wanted to use Mikael Carneholm's Smoke Generator, but will have to
- wait till I have a bigger computer.
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