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- TITLE: Any Color, As Long As It's Black
- NAME: Scot Shaw
- COUNTRY: USA
- EMAIL: sshaw@fas.harvard.edu
- WEBPAGE: www.fas.harvard.edu/~sshaw
- TOPIC: History
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
- JPGFILE: modelt.jpg
- ZIPFILE: modelt.zip
- RENDERER USED:
- POV-Ray 3.1
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- TOOLS USED:
- POV-Ray
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- RENDER TIME:
- 4 hours, 5 minutes
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- HARDWARE USED:
- 266 MHz Pentium, 64 Megs of RAM
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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- A simpler time, in 1920's America. If you had a car it was a
- Model T, and it was black. (The title refers to a perhaps
- apocryphal saying of Henry Ford.) We see here a typical store
- front on a (somewhat deserted) street. Not meant to deptict
- a particular place or time, this image is just a snapshot of
- the era.
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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- This is my first entry into the IRTC, so I made some rookie
- mistakes. I spent much too much time on the Model T (most of the
- first month) so that when other things in life demanded time I
- was left scrambling to finish the rest of the image in late
- April. The purist in me also couldn't resist putting details
- into the car that can't even be seen in the final image (for
- example, there are rivots in the engine compartment).
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- The car, building design, lamp posts, and other aspect of the
- image were designed from pictures that I could find from the
- 1920's, and Model T collector pages on the internet.
-
- I found that I could use a command in POV-Ray to make the final
- image greyscale, and I agonized over whether to use it or not.
- On the one hand, there is a lot of information in the colors of
- the image, and I did spend time getting them right. But the
- greyscale image just looked more authentic. In the end, I had
- to go with the color image; if you are curious, you can just
- alter it to greyscale in an image editor. I also had some
- problems with gamma correction, since my screen has a gamma of
- one and as a result my image looked too dark on other PCs.
-
- I don't use any programs other than POV-Ray, but in the future
- I might...so that I can put people in my images. I have tried
- in the past to build up a realistic person by myself, but just
- can't get anywhere close.
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- I am hoping to draw in some comments on this image that will be
- useful in future entries. If nothing else, I have the Model T
- object that I can use in future scenes.
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