EMAIL: abuchm7158@aol.com
NAME: Alexandre BUCHMANN
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Four polyhedra
COUNTRY: FRANCE
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 beta version
TOOLS USED: IRFAN VIEW 2.8 to convert TGA to JPEG; EXCEL 5 for
calculate values.
RENDER TIME: 48m
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-120.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This is a composition with compounds of platonic polyhedra.
The desk is from :
BADEL ET CIE
249, av. R. POINCARE
83700 SAINT-RAPHAEL
FRANCE
Tél. : 04 94 95 18 35 - Fax : 04 94 95 26 36


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The scene has been composed for povray beta version 3.1 for Windows.
I use the new function MACRO to calculate rotation matrix. For a precedent
version of Povray, I needed EXCEL 5 to obtain the same result. I did not
find an equivalent function in the help file of povray. But in the source
file MATRICES.C it is a function called : Compute_Axis_Rotation_Transform
(transform, V1, angle).
To render this file, you must have the two following files in the INCLUDE
directory: POLYREG.INC (Platonic polyhedra). On these polyhedra, you can
do CSG OPERATIONS. And COL_RDR.INC. This file contains the pigments from
RENDERAY 2.0 and it is easyer for me to translate RENDERAY scenes to
POVRAY.