EMAIL: douge@nls.net
NAME: Douglas Eichenberg
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Memorial
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: www.getinfo.net/douge
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.5
TOOLS USED: Poser, NuGraf, Picture Publisher
RENDER TIME: You don't wanna know...
HARDWARE USED: P4 1.5
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Your guess is as good as mine on this one... perhaps a surreal war memorial being viewed by a woman from the 1800's?  I started out with one idea in mind, and the image turned into something that doesn't even resemble what I planned... but that isn't necessarily a bad thing as I kind of like it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The wall is constructed of blobs and poser figures.  The blobs are a result of a series of macros I wrote for creating what I call "blobjects"... random but repetitive objects made of blobs.  The macros are capable of creating all sorts of strange shapes... see my website for other examples.  There were 2 poser figures used, one male and one female, with 3 poses for each.  Then I made a macro to pick one at random and place it on the wall of blobs via the trace function.  The woman in the foreground is the Victoria model for Poser with some of the 1890's objects and textures off Daz3d.  The hair was Koz hair found on the internet.  Alpha maps were used in the hair and the lace.  I wanted to avoid radiosity somehow, but it just wouldn't have looked right without it because of all the small recessed areas between bodies and blobs.  As a result, the render time was absurdly long (something like 44 days).  It was too much for one machine to handle, so I had to split it among 2 machines and render it in chunks of 300 lines (rendered at 1600x1200).  The placement routine could use some work... there's a lot of overlapping and such between figures and blobs.  I will get around to ironing that out another time.  I used 2 light sources, one key light in a sort of bone color, and a fill light in a bluish tone.