EMAIL: super-rn@uol.iunet.it NAME: Marco Semprini TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: "Dali's calling.." COUNTRY: Italy RENDERER USED: POV3WIN ISOsurface Beta 18a (POV-Ray 3.02 unoffical patch) TOOLS USED: POVLAB 4.0 SP3, sPatch 1.51, Wilbur, Helix 1.0, Photoshop 4.0 RENDER TIME: 4 Minutes 8 Seconds HARDWARE USED: PC (Intel Pentium II 416 Mhz/384 Mb Ram/ET6000 4 Mb MDRAM) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Dali's calling.... Will you answer him ? The surrealistic Salvador Dali' was the first "modern art" painter i loved (it was in 1985). Actually i'm moving in the corridors of "contemporary art", but some innovative impressions of that past period are indelible carved in my soul. I really enjoyed myself modeling those "surreal" objects! Hope you like them! :) RENDERING MUSIC: "Drift" - tHeHacker of Kosmic/Ultrabeat XM module released under the Kosmic group, available at the URL below: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/music/songs/1996/k_drift.zip Damn! I love this "foggy" musicians. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: (Main modeller) The main used program is the great Denis Olivier's POVLAB 3D modeller, now FREEWARE! Worth the download, don't you ?! ;) (Other tools used) The 30's "Phone", the enigmatic "Wooden Sustains", the revealed "Skin of the Sea", the simulacre of an "Elephant" and the "Soft Clock on rock" were modelled completely with Mike Clifton's sPatch 1.51 utility; the resulting patches (in POV file format) were then converted into POVLAB file format using my freeware utility Bez2Scn 1.2 (available at the POVLAB ftp site: ). The Mountains were created using height fields generator Wilbur (just to test it, but nothing exceptional, imho). The Moon is a 32 bit Targa, using the alpha channel, hardly modified within Aldus Photoshop 4.0; it's the only 'trick' present in this image. The Shell is a raw file created by Helix 1.0 tool (preset 3). Marco "ObLiQuE" Semprini ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Playing with stone dices, with flat unnumbered faces. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ