EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com
NAME: Robert J Becraft
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: White Queen
COUNTRY:  USA
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.5
TOOLS USED: PSP for copyright, Irfvan32 (convert to jpg), POSER 3 for the woman, UVMAPER & OBJ2POV (figure conversion)
RENDER TIME: 3 hours 57 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 433
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The queen stands alone in the royal audience chamber.  Empty of people, loneliness at the
top.  The image is intended to evoke this type of loneliness and also has a number of 
metaphores to tingle the veiwer's senses... notice that the floor is 8x8 grids (chess-boards),
the king's chair is overturned... symbolic of how one resign's a chessgame.  The pillars for the 
daiz approach are like pawns.  The hall was created large to emphasize its being empty.  Some scale
is given through the railings on the balcony over the far wall.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Created the space and vaulting of the ceilings.
Added detail to each component in the scene
Created the figure, crown, necklace and ring are all done in POV, applied to the figure by hand
Lighting was the toughest... radiosity was also attempted, however, it pushed the render time to 4+ days.

Challenges... using a single light to light the hall gives a smooth finish to all the objects in the
scene.  Using actual light sources at the point of origin (i.e. in the light fixtures), created the
interesting patterns on the ceiling, walls and floors.  Would this space actually light in that fashion,
I'm not entirely sure.  

 Respectfully submitted,
 Robert J Becraft