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- TITLE: Het achterhuis
- NAME: Fabien MOSEN
- COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking)
- EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com
- WEBPAGE: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/chkpage.htm
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- TOPIC: HISTORY
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
- JPGFILE: achter.jpg
- RENDERER USED:
- POV 3.1e
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- TOOLS USED:
- sPatch, Corel,
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- RENDER TIME:
- 3 hours
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- HARDWARE USED:
- AMD K6/233 - 128 Mb
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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- Holland, 1942. Anne Frank (14) and her family, being Jews and wanting
- to avoid being sent to concentration camps (they knew very well what
- these camps were), with the help of one on the father's employees,
- had to hide themselves in an "achterhuis" (backhouse), which was built
- at the back of a pretty normal house. The achterhuis comprised several rooms,
- and was linked to the house by a secret bookshelf that was in fact a door.
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- While they lived hidden, Anne, the younger girl, started to write a diary,
- where she was writing letters to a fictious "Kitty", to who she told everything
- about how they lived, her feelings...
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- August 4, 1944, the nazis discovered their hiding place, and they were
- sent in concentration camps where all the family died (killed, or victims
- of epidemy). Anne died in march 1945, only a few days before the camps
- were liberated. Only her father, Otto Frank, survived. After the end of the
- war,
- he found the diary and published it.
-
- The diary is a unique testimony about what the Jews (and everyone who has to
- hide)
- could feel, how they lived in that situation. The particular point of view,
- in the diary of a young girl, makes the book amazing and poignant.
-
- For more complete information : www.annefrank.com
-
- The image is an attempt to recreate Anne's room, where she slept, and where
- she wrote her diary, on a small desk.
-
- important note : this image is an *illustration*; while it was seriously
- documented,
- time constraints and variations amongst the source docs prevent it to be
- absolutely
- accurate; so, again, it's just an ILLUSTRATION.
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-
- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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-
- - bought and read the book. While I was aware of it, I never had the
- opportunity
- to read it. As I said before, it is amazing.
-
- - a few days after I bought the book, I've been informed that an Anne Frank
- exhibition
- will be held in my city between March and April. Great ! I had the
- opportunity
- to collect every information I was missing, especially about the room itself.
-
- - I had to do "reverse" perspective : extracting actual dimensions from a
- photograph.
- Glad I learned perpective in school !
-
- - everything else is patient modelling job :
- curtain and magazines on the shef are HF's
- cushion and bedsheets are sPatch modelling
- everything else is CSG
-
- The deadline is near, and I don't have the time to explain too much detail !
- Also, I don't see anything that needs too much explanation ;)
- If you still want to know something else, write me !
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