EMAIL: gailshaw@mweb.co.za NAME: Gail Shaw TOPIC: Worlds within Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Realistic Painting COUNTRY: South Africa WEBPAGE: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/ RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro Photoshop Poser 4 Vue d'Espirit RENDER TIME: 2 Hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 800Mhz 512 MB Memory IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Sometimes paintings are a little more realistic than they look. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I initially planned to model a pond creature in Rhino, but quickly decided that my organic modelling skills weren't up to it. I had a fish poser object so I decided to use that instead. The three 'paintings' were created in Vue d'Espirit 2 and processed in photoshop to give a painted look'. I built up the main scene (paintings, sculptures and room) then spent several hours aligning the fish so that it matched with the painting. The water drops are created with a macro I wrote to place objects falling from a moving area of space. The closer of the sculptures is a julia fractal, the other is an isosurface. The scene is lit mostly with spotlights, allowing me to have areas well lit and others in shadow.