TITLE: "Placid Sequences" NAME: Marco Semprini COUNTRY: Italy EMAIL: super-rn@uol.it TOPIC: Water COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: placid.jpg ZIPFILE: placid.zip RENDERER USED: POV3WIN ISOsurface Beta 18a (POV-Ray 3.02 unoffical patch) TOOLS USED: POVLAB 4.0 SP3, HF-LAB 0.84, CorelDraw 5.0, Aldus Photoshop 4.0 RENDER TIME: 1 Hour 7 Minutes HARDWARE USED: PC Intel Pentium II 416 Mhz 333 overclocked 288 Mb Ram ET6000 4 Mb MDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Quietly ACID! Might ever such uncommon feeling exist ? Well.. other events, that totally differ from IRTC, brought me to conceive this image; infact this picture corresponds to a trial of mine on imaging a CD Audio cover, basing my inspiration on the group name only: "Silicon Tranquillity" (tm). An impressive name, isn't it ?? I would like to dedicate this image to all the dudes of Silicon Tranquillity project, wishing them good luck for their incoming goa-trance CD: Jrb, Nexus, Emolient, Matrix Cubed, DeepBlue and others. It will be out this winter under "Starchild Records inc." label! You can find/talk to them on #trax under IRCnet: they rock! :) RENDERING MUSIC: "Kabalah" (Astral Projection - from "Trust in Trance 3") genre: Goa-Trance, of course! :P DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Now some explanations for those who don't know what is that 'object' lying on the sand: it's a Roland 303!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roland Bassline 303 is an old (i.e. it's no more produced) analogue machine used in almost every Trance/Acid Techno tunes, because it can generate those 'lovely' acid bass sequences i fell in love with! Check out the ZIP file, because in it i have added a couple of 'perfect' images of Roland 303, and a sound file (.WAV) of an acid sequence, taken from the site '303 not found' mantained by Dupont! So... why an electronic machine under water ? This is the point!! :))) The bewilderment such object creates - being underwater - was my main aim. The same as finding an original 70's Hammond organ on Hymalaian peaks or an acoustic Pearl drumset inside an alien spaceship! :P (Main modeller) The main used program is the great Denis Olivier's POVLAB 3D modeler! (In order of creation) Roland 303 - It was modeled within POVLAB, using POV primitives (mainly superelissoids, boxes and capped cylinders) and some CSG operations. The modeling took me some hours, but i spent most of the time on creating and positioning the image_maps (29 Mb of Targas created with CorelDraw 5.0 OEM and exported at 'only' 300 dpi) The Sand - It's an height_field created with John P. Beale's HF-Lab 0.84 Beta (c) utility and textured by a POV procedural texture. It's a 30 Mb Targa (3200x3200)! The Algaes and - All the vegetations are converted 3DS/DXF meshes i've the Plants found on the Net, converted into RAW format using Thomas Baier's 3Dto3D 1.7 (c) utility. The Bubbles - The bubbles were created within POVLAB, using Denis Olivier's plug-in 'Bubbles', except for the nearest ones, created and positionated manually. The Fishes - Those fishes are a couple of 32 bit Targas, created in Corel Draw 5.0. You can see the edges of those Targas, due to the atmospheric feature! :( Marco "ObLiQuE" Semprini --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love to hear the sounds of fluffy clouds ---------------------------------------------------------------------------