EMAIL: famrom@ran.es NAME: Guillermo Sanz Romero TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Future of Art WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4774/index.html RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.02.msdos.wat-cwa TOOLS USED: DOS Edit and Micrografx Picture Publisher 5.0 & 7.0 RENDER TIME: 5h 14m 12s HARDWARE USED: PC iP55-166MHz(MMX) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The past of the Art was trying to get realistic images based in reality. The present is getting abstract things based in reality (how many paint splashes has been named "bird" or similar things? how many were inspired by travels or feelings? they get "reality" and then abstract it). Maybe the future is getting reality from abstract. For some people that rock may represent a Bible's character, like the one in the picture. Our invisible painter (s/he is out of scene, celebrating that the picture is finished, of course) follows this new school. You can see the model (a big rock sculpture), the easel with the picture and the briefcase used to transport her/his tools. [Entertainment...? uuuhhh, what do you visit on week ends?] DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First I build the room. The walls are boxes, the better way to get the correct shapes. Some CSG is used for the holes (windows). Textures where applied and reworked along all the process, basic ideas are set here (checkered floor, rough walls, etc). The windows are build using an include loop, because the three (side, front and corridor) are similiar, only dimensions change. I also put two doors, one in the side and other in the corridor, behind the sculpture. A basic illumination is arranged now, a Sun and two fill lights. The garden (outside, some boxes with a special texture) and the the mountains (two height fields) are made at this first stage too (and commented out to speed up the rest). This was the moment for testing and setting the fog, too. The sky is a sky sphere and a plane with transparent zones. The next was the easel. It is based in my home drawing table, the ones at my old school and some I have seen in offices. The color was wheat, but after some tests, the image was too colorless, so I changed to the color the ones at my old school were (pale green). The picture is a pair of boxes, one for the image and other for the canvas. It is placed in the easel, like if finished but still wet. I thought about making a wood base or a wood easel, but they were too typical. The easel is more contemporary and the canvas... well, the back is not seen, so who knows what it is made from? Wood, wood and cloth, synthetic fiber board... The picture is a processed photo from the PP5 CD, to give some hand made look (I want a picture, not a photograph). Then the sculpture. It is some spheres and cones, with holes carved with more cones and boxes. The basic shape must have some relation with the image, so I placed the objects in a similar way the character is. To end the objects, the briefcase. Yes, typical, but I wanted some wood and I was running out of objects and time. It is six boxes for the sides, two superellipsoids for the locks and one torus for the handle. The wood texture is really good, but the object is too small to be seen clearly. The image looked a bit dull... so I added the lights in the corner: more objects and more illumination. Now the scene seems to be a museum: white, clean, few shadows. The final touches were adjusting some positions and textures. After that, the image was signed and converted to JPG with PP7.