TITLE: American Radio
NAME: Larry Page
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: taymac@peaknet.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.peaknet.net/~taymac/
TOPIC: Old Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray
TOOLS USED: 3d Studio Max and Moray for Modeling, Pov-Ray to render
RENDER TIME: Approx. 5 Hours
HARDWARE USED: Gateway Pent 4, 2gig. processor, about 1000 RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
American Radio Still Life
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
As a child during the 50's I grew up in the golden age of Television, and the declining years of Radio. We had a Philco Radio, and a B&W Philco Television set, that were used to the max. And many Saturday mornings were spent awaiting the T.V. repairman and his tools and tube testing kit to arrive and set things back in order. My brother and I allways got the old tubes, that we used to create small robots and rocket ships out of, because with all the glass copper and chrome that made the vacuum tubes work, they lended themselves well to the creation of the objects mentioned....So with that in mind I set about creating this scene, a lot of time was spent creating image maps, ang practice models of differant types and styles of vacuum
tubes, The scene contains many other objects of the repairmans trade soldering iron, spare tubes, magazines and manuals...many test renderings were done for the right lighting,soft shadows and caustics. I still love looking at those old radios and tv's from that era, but next came the transistors, then the digital age, It would probably be tough to render and model on a vacuum powered processor....so I guess progress is ok....