EMAIL: theo@tk.uni-linz.ac.at
NAME:  Theodorich Kopetzky
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Flight of Stairs
COUNTRY: Austria
WEBPAGE: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at:80/~theo/ray/
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.00e
TOOLS USED:    Moray 2.5     for modeling
               Photoshop 3.0 to insert my logo 

RENDER TIME:   approx. 78 hours

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Another interpretation of flight is that of a stair flight.

So I tried to model the staircase of the architect Otto Wagner (era of Art Nouveau
if memory serves me well). The real staircase can be viewed at the "Postsparkasse" 
(a savings-bank in an post office) in Vienna/Austria. It has been built from 
1904 to 1912.

The stairs does not look the same as the original but it resembles it quite well.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The picture was modelled using Moray 2.5. The construction was mainly done 
with the orbit function of this great modeller and lots of objects (more then 1200
spheres for the railing alone).

No fancy technique was used to model the scene and even all texture are pretty
standard.

This is my second entry for the competition and I'm still pretty new to the field 
of ray tracing.

The long rendering time of the image results from using atmospheric effects and 
anti aliasing, I think...

Source:
For those interested I'm providing the source. Feel free to use it as long 
as you mention me and send me an e-mail (maybe with an URL, so that I 
can take a look at your picture).

The .mdl file for moray is here, too, but be warned: I used a lot of objects to 
model that scene.