EMAIL: sunyata@club-internet.fr NAME: Vincent Lesaulnier TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Resting place COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: http://sunyata.tsx.org RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1a (95) TOOLS USED: sPatch - paint shop pro RENDER TIME: 03min 20s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 400 - 128Mo RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A nice non-existing place to have a rest... Or having a rest in a painting ? We sometimes manage to reach the Other (opposed to self), but most of the times we are confronted with our own projections, so what we see is just a mask... Mixing all this makes me think about a painting. Who has never thought about going into a painting ? But we can't. We can see it, but never reach it. I think I would feel pretty calm in a painting (no noises ?). So I ended up with a cool quiet resting place, with chairs to sit like a few gardens in Paris, and a face to meditate... The floor is an idea of Salvador Dali, The two Harlequins 1942. The mask is my first face attempt with sPatch. I am fascinated by face expressions, and especially mask ones. This mask reminds me of a joker like face. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: * chairs & mask were made with sPatch * color map for mask was done paint shop pro * all the rest is pov hand-made (sky is just a gradient with 2 layers of bozo transmit only ; haze is a floor texture and the low part of sky gradient : no media !)