EMAIL: maelstro@hotmail.com NAME: Mael TOPIC: Old technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Eiffel Tower Phone COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: (a patched version of) PovRay 3.5 TOOLS USED: spline macro by Chris Colefax RENDER TIME: one night HARDWARE USED: Athlon XP 1800+, 256 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A replica of 1892's LM Ericsson model DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: -Modeling/Composition : http://www.theoldtelephone.co.uk/images/Magneto/16_facing_rt1.jpg http://www.amradios.com/pictures/cr-689.jpg http://www.sandman.com/images/oldphone1.jpg Modeling of the phone with superellipsoid, cylinder, torus, etc.. and spline macro by Chris Colefax (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/) for the phone cord. The eiffel tower is a free mesh found on the web http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/fr/ludique/visite/3D/index_comp.html -Textures : simple metals, and a plastic with a small amount of blurred reflection to get highlights -Lightning : quick lightning using only an HDR image (the kitchen probe from Paul Debevec http://www.debevec.org/Probes/) -Rendering : two-pass radiosity. 1st pass without reflections (count 1000, error_bound .08) Focal blur for background, and +AM2 +A0.2 for the phone (the antialiasing of the focal blur rendered image was not looking good for the foreground)