EMAIL: wozzeck@club-internet.fr NAME: Francois Dispot TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Ligeti's Poeme Symphonique COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/vienna/7709 RENDERER USED: Povray 3.02 TOOLS USED: Corel Draw! 3, Casio FX-82 RENDER TIME: 7h 16mn 49s + 4h 36mn 59s using 25+Mb memory HARDWARE USED: P200 w/ 64Mb Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In september 1963, the hungarian composer György Ligeti created in Hilversum (Netherland) his "Poème Symphonique", for 100 metronomes. The audience did not know what they were going to listen to, and at the end of the concert, the scandal was so intense that the TV film of the event was not broadcasted as it should have been, and its later broadcasting was forbidden... The idea is simple: take 100 metronomes, wind them to a different level, set them to differet speeds, and unleash all of them at the same time. The initial chaos slowly gets more organized, as more and more metronomes stop, until there is only one that finally stops. The full process lasts about 20 minutes. If you want to get an idea of what it sounds like, Sony Classical recently published a recording of this piece in their 5th part of Ligeti's complete works (ref. SK 62310). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything was designed by hand, making an extensive use of "function" includes. Motion blur was achieved by a -quite hairy- hand-made computation of "exposure" time of each different section of each part of the metronomes, leading to gradient+wood+average textures. There is neither post-processing, nor patch here! This gave the Magazine picture. Then this picture was included in another one to display the magazine. Everything was made at antialias 0.0 to keep the maximum amount of details.