TITLE: Nostradamus Prophecies

NAME: Stefano Tessarin
COUNTRY: Italy

EMAIL: s.tessarin@tin.it
WEBPAGE: N/A

TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nostrada.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5 and MegaPov 1.0


TOOLS USED: 
    PSP,Moray


RENDER TIME: 
    20 minutes about


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP 3000+ RAM 512MB




IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

When I saw for the first time the topic of this round I had completely no idea
about what to do. Then I saw a picture by Antonello da Messina (xv century
italian painter) of St.Jeronimous in his laboratory and I got the inspiration:
an old prophet's lab. From here to Nostradamus the step was close. 
The prophecy is a vision about II world war. Since I didn't want to, I had to
add a nazi's flag to match the idea, since the other images (bombers, D-Day and
atomic bomb) were to hard to understand alone, but I don't want to encourage
any act of that evil government. SO IF SOMEONE HAS BEEN OFFENDED BY THIS IMAGE,
I'M VERY SORRY.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Everything is csg I realized in POV ray, except for all the lathes I did with
Moray.
All the clothes (the tablecloth, the curtains) are done with SimCloth within
MegaPov, then their mesh files included in PovRay. All the textures are actual
textures taken by my HP digital camera, except for the curtains and the floor,
coming from free texture collection both.
The two pages of the open book over the desk are the first two pages of an
actual Nostradamus edition of XVII century.
The vision in the crystalball is simply an image_map mapped onto a disk object
inside an hollow sphere of the same radius then the sphere.

Sorry for the fast explanation, but I decided to take part of this round only
december 24th... so I lacked of time and I hurried to accomplished it!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE RAY TRACING COMMUNITY.