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- TITLE: The Great Fire of London
- NAME: Karl Manning
- COUNTRY: England
- EMAIL: karl@pemail.net
- WEBPAGE: http://www.gfxgallery.com
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- TOPIC: History
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
- JPGFILE: fire.jpg
- RENDERER USED:
- POVRAY 3.02.watcom.win32
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- TOOLS USED:
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- SPatch 1.5
- PaintShop Pro 4.14
- Poser 1
- Amapi Studio 3.06
- Crossroads
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- RENDER TIME:
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- HARDWARE USED:
- 233MHz PII 64 MB
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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- In 1666 the Great Fire of London started in a bakers shop in Pudding Lane.
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- The fire was the biggest single calamity in the history of the city. It had
- destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, 6 chapels, 44 Company Halls, the
- Royal Exchange, the Custom House, St Paul's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the
- Bridewell and other City prisons,the Session House, four bridges across the
- Thames and Fleet rivers and three city gates. Surprisingly, only 3 people died
- in the blaze.
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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- A rough layout was made with square blocks for the buildings, standard poser
- figures for the people and a light in a sphere for the fire. This made an
- abstract picture which in some ways I prefer. Anyway, the buildings were
- detailed using csg and boxes.
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- I thought I'd do the same with the people. Bah. I tried exporting the figures
- from Poser as a DXF file, then importing them into Amapi to draw some clothes
- on them. Poser 1 doesn't like the DXF format. There were big holes in the
- image, in particular the heads got completely mashed.
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- I spent a lot of time trying to convert across with little success. I then
- thought I'd use a mesh from 3D cafe (http://www.3dcafe.com). Got some faces,
- now we just have the problem of scale - poser file is about 1 unit high, the 3d
- meshes are approx 100000 units wide. Amapi doesn't let you scale things too
- small, although it will read in meshes with fractional points.
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- In the end I gave up, and created the whole of the figures using spatch.
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- To reduce parsing times, I exported from spatch as a DXF instead of as a pov
- file (which uses bi-cubics). This was then taken into Amapi and exported from
- there as a POV file. The advantage of doing this instead of using crossroads is
- that Amapi uses smooth triangles which makes the image look a lot better.
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- Karl Manning
- karl@pemail.net
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