EMAIL: exether@demo.xandmail.com NAME: Jean-Charles Marteau TOPIC: Old Technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Graphic technology COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: Under construction RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: GIMP RENDER TIME: HARDWARE USED: PII 400MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I always think we tend to limit history to the last few thousand years when not the last few centuries. I think this is unfair as many many things we have today come from remote ages, from fire, language to the animals and plants that where domesticated some 10000 years ago and that feed us. So, this picture represents the ancestor technology of what we all do with graphics : ancient art. I added the Povray logo as a link to the modern graphic technologies as if the painter had foreseen it. It is a humble homage to all these great anonymous people. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The cave is a height field, it took quite some time to have in the correct position, but now it is (or so I hope). It is textured with various animals from the Lascaux cave (prepared with GIMP) and a Povray logo made with Povray. The oil lamps and paint pots are CSGs, the flame is an emiting media object. The branches where made with the famous maketree macro from Chris Colefax. The lighting where made with the Light System macros from Jaime Vives Piqueres.