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- TITLE: The history classroom
- NAME: Romain Guillard
- COUNTRY: France
- EMAIL: rguillard@claranet.fr
- WEBPAGE: http://browse.to/roms_3d_p@ges
- TOPIC: History
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
- JPGFILE: rg_histo.jpg
- RENDERER USED:
- Vue d'Esprit 2
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- TOOLS USED:
- sPatch, Paint Shop Pro 4
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- RENDER TIME:
- 7h 30 mn 53s
- HARDWARE: Pentium 200, 32 Mb RAM
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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- This history classroom is like what they whould always be: living.
- History is, imho, very important for us to know who we are and that's why
- history teachers should try to take hold of children's interrest.
- There's no better way to do so than replacing the chalkboard by a window, opened
- on the world so that pupils are captivated by the lesson instead of playing
- with their Gameboy.
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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- I've always enjoyed history lessons in school so I wanted to do something about
- it and then I had the idea of making the classroom more "living" by replacing
- the chalkboard by a window. The question was: what should I show through this
- window ? The answer came quickly: pyramids. Two reasons for this choice: I've
- always been fascinated by this part of history and at the time I started
- creating this image it was just one year after my trip to Egypt to see those
- pyramids for real.
- I know the pyramids are not set up like in the reality but I just wanted to make
- an ideal representation of them (with the River Nile, palm trees, the
- desert...).
-
- All objects present in this image were modelled by myself (but for the boat
- which is a model by Matthew Hart). I either used sPatch or boolean operations
- on primitives to create them.
- The pyramids are not just a mapped picture, they are a scene inside the scene. I
- did this because I wanted the chalkboard to be a truly opened window and not
- just look like it were.
- The old map on the wall is a reproduction of a painting by Th_odore de Bry
- (1596) showing 4 great explorators (the ones we can see are Christopher
- Colombus and Amerigo Vespucci, the ones on the right part of the painting,
- which we can not see, were Magellan and Pizarre) around a approximative
- representation of the New World. I chose this image because those people have
- played a very important role in our history, discovering new worlds.
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