EMAIL: super-rn@uol.iunet.it
NAME: Marco Semprini
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: "Dali's calling.."
COUNTRY: Italy
RENDERER USED: POV3WIN ISOsurface Beta 18a (POV-Ray 3.02 unoffical patch)
TOOLS USED: POVLAB 4.0 SP3, sPatch 1.51, Wilbur, Helix 1.0, Photoshop 4.0
RENDER TIME: 4 Minutes 8 Seconds
HARDWARE USED: PC  (Intel Pentium II 416 Mhz/384 Mb Ram/ET6000 4 Mb MDRAM)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Dali's calling....  Will you answer him ?


    The surrealistic Salvador Dali' was the first "modern art"
    painter i loved  (it was in 1985).  Actually i'm moving in
    the corridors of "contemporary art",  but  some innovative
    impressions of that past period are indelible carved in my
    soul.
    I really enjoyed myself modeling those "surreal" objects!
    Hope you like them! :)


RENDERING MUSIC:

    "Drift" - tHeHacker of Kosmic/Ultrabeat

    XM module released under the Kosmic group, available at
    the URL below:

    ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/music/songs/1996/k_drift.zip

    Damn! I love this "foggy" musicians.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:


    (Main modeller)

    The main used program is the great Denis Olivier's POVLAB 3D modeller,
    now FREEWARE!  Worth the download, don't you ?!  ;)


    (Other tools used)

    The 30's "Phone", the enigmatic "Wooden Sustains", the revealed
    "Skin of the Sea", the simulacre of an "Elephant" and the "Soft
    Clock on rock"  were  modelled  completely  with Mike Clifton's
    sPatch 1.51 utility; the resulting patches (in POV file format)
    were then converted into POVLAB file format  using my  freeware
    utility  Bez2Scn 1.2  (available  at  the  POVLAB  ftp  site:
    <http://www.povlab.org>).

    The Mountains were created using height fields generator Wilbur
    (just to test it, but nothing exceptional, imho).

    The Moon is a 32 bit Targa, using the alpha channel, hardly modified
    within Aldus Photoshop 4.0; it's the only 'trick' present in this
    image.

    The Shell is a raw file created by Helix 1.0 tool (preset 3).



                                            Marco "ObLiQuE" Semprini

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