TITLE: Shahriar, Sheherazad and Doniazad
NAME: Francois Dispot
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: wozzeck@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/7709
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fd1001.jpg
ZIPFILE: fd1001.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02 (unofficial POVPro compile)

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch 1.3, Arabeske 0.9d, Chris Colefax's Galaxy Plug-in, spilin
1.2

RENDER TIME: 
    3 h 51 mn using ~78 Mb memory

HARDWARE USED: 
    P200 w/ 64Mb Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Once upon a time, there was a king named Shahriar. After 20 years of perfect
rulership over his kingdom, he discovered that his wife decieved him with a
slave. He then killed her and her slaves, and went away with his brother, who
had encountered the same fate. After a short adventure involving a genni and a
woman convincing him of general women's lack of faithfulness, he went back to
his country, and decided that each night, he would meet a new virgin provided
by his vizir and then kill her. This situation lasted for 3 years, until the
only available girls were the vizir's daughters, named Sheherazad and Doniazad.
But Sheherazad was very wise, and had set up a plan. On the night they met, she
asked to see her sister for a last time, and Doniazad asked her in return that,
as a souvenir from their last encounter, she tells one of the incredible
stories she knew. But dawn came before the story was over, and Shahriar,
willing to know the end of the story, did not kill her and waited another
night, then another...

For the curious, Bruno Bettelheim gives some clues about the 1001 nights in his
faerie tales psychoanalysis. Concerning the main story, the key point is that
you need time to now someone else, and that true communication and
understanding can only appear after you know each other. 

The three main characters of the 1001 nights are here in an imaginary palace. I
let you imagine what tale Sheherazad is telling the two others. Is it about
Sindbad, Aladdin, Ali-Baba... It's up to you, but if you have never opened it,
the time has come to discover this book compiled after two originals dating
from centuries IX and X, a part of which is lost.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


All the settings were made using CSG; characters with sPatch:
   Scheherazad: 1289 patches
   Doniazad:   1560 patches
   Shahriar:    1314 patches
Their heads were built after Anto Matkovic's tutorial; clothes and faces were
decorated using material_maps

This was the first real picture made with my Java arabesque editor; several
parts of the settings (walls, columns, floor, fence) are made with
material_maps designed with its help. This tool is available for use on my
homepage.

The rug was taken from http://www.islamicart.com and is not included for
copyright reasons.