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TITLE: The first journey to India the other way...?
NAME: Emil Roijer
COUNTRY: Sweden
EMAIL: emil.roijer@sydpost.nu
WEBPAGE: ---
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: columbo.jpg
ZIPFILE: columbo.zip
RENDERER USED:
Povray 3.1
TOOLS USED:
Moray 3.1, Terrain Maker
RENDER TIME:
22 minutes
HARDWARE USED:
PII-350
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
My picture describes the moment when Columbus started his unsuccessful journey
to India.
I really hoped you should see that yourself!
Anyway, I've been working a lot with boats and this one is no exception.
In my first vision of this picture, the boat was closer to the camera, but
then
I realized I didn't have the time to do all the details.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The entire picture is made in Moray, with CSG-objects. There is one exception,
though: The mountain.
This is a hightfield, made in Terrain Maker.
The houses are mostly big cubes with a fancy texture. But one exception is made:
The big house behind the fountain. This one's made to be big and luxury (for
it's time, of course)
and it also has the best view of the ocean.
All the textures has some sort of bumps attached to it, wich make the picture
more alive.
The fountain is made of a rotatesweep, and the water is thoruses with a almost
white texture.
I had some troubles with this object, because it took more than an hour to
render it
(800x600 picture, with the fountain as the only object)! Thank God it's far
away!
The ship is made of cylinders and spheres. That's mostly because it's not so
close (if I had it
closer, I would have to do the ship in sPatch, or something like that). And
another big problem:
The water around the boat! The water it self wasn't so hard. Two good looking
colours and
a granitbump sized up to X-50 and Y-50. But around the boat! I never found any
way to make it
look good, so I dropped it.
Hope you don't mind...
The sky is a very big sphere wich surounds all the other objects.