EMAIL: gailshaw@mweb.co.za
NAME: Gail Shaw
TOPIC: Worlds within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Realistic Painting
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro
						Photoshop
						Poser 4
						Vue d'Espirit
RENDER TIME: 2 Hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 800Mhz 512 MB Memory
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Sometimes paintings are a little more realistic than they look.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I initially planned to model a pond creature in Rhino, but quickly decided that
my organic modelling skills weren't up to it. I had a fish poser object so I decided
to use that instead. The three 'paintings' were created in Vue d'Espirit 2 and processed
in photoshop to give a painted look'. I built up the main scene (paintings, sculptures and
room) then spent several hours aligning the fish so that it matched with the painting.
The water drops are created with a macro I wrote to place objects falling from a moving area 
of space. The closer of the sculptures is a julia fractal, the other is an isosurface.

The scene is lit mostly with spotlights, allowing me to have areas well lit and others in shadow.