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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
TOOLS USED:
POV-Ray
RENDER TIME:
4 hours, 5 minutes
HARDWARE USED:
266 MHz Pentium, 64 Megs of RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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).
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.
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.