EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Little Empty Theater
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Megapov 0.5a
TOOLS USED: Text-Editor, PSP 4.0 (Compression and Text)
RENDER TIME: 3h 28m 19s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III - 1 GHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A Theater displays if not is a world within our world. This one may be deserted save a lonely chair remaining in the spotlight of this world and our consciousness.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Well this image consists completely of hand-coded boxes and spheres (some intersected or differenced) and light-sources (oh yes I think somewhere is a camera).
After I had the Idea of creating an empty stage (the chair was later added because the stage looked too empty) I began with the boards for the stage floor. Everything else was built around these Boards.

Then I placed light-sources in the small stage lamps with a very short range and the spotlight pointed to the center of the stage. A darker area light source simulates scattered light comming from the audience-room and finally a shadowless lightsource above the stage gives little ambient light for the dark corners.

Finally I created the textures beginning with the brick wall surrounding the whole theater and containing a little atmospheric media to enhance the spotlight beam. For everything else I primarily used wood textures (even for the curtain) and bump maps. Only the floor and as already mentioned the back wall have other textures (checker and brick).