TITLE: Art Gallery
NAME: Chris Holtorf
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lholtorf@nwlink.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: artglry1.jpg
ZIPFILE: artglry1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRAY, MS Paint, Rhino, K3sSurf

RENDER TIME: 
    61 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Pentium P4 2.4 ghz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

   This scene describes a Minimalist Art Gallery. The texture of the walls and
floor were created to provide the least amount of distraction to the viewer of
the two pieces of art in the open air part of the gallery (the statue and the
pool). The stairs lead the visitor to the entry way to the upper part of the
gallery, where three different paintings await. 
   The trees in the background are there to inforce the Minimalistic nature of
the gallery by providing a strong contrast to the Minimalist idea.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

   This image was created primarily in POVRAY. The doughnut-like statue was made
using K3dSurf, the stair railings and pool ladder were made in Rhino and the
images for the paintings were done using MS Paint. I had intended on replacing
the Rhino parts with geometry created in POVRAY, but ran out of time.
   I used two machines to render this image. I had played around with different
radiosity settings and differrent levels of anti-aliasing and used what I
thought gave the best results   versus speed. It still took a very long time to
render for such a simple image.
   The zip file contains everything but the tree data from Tom Tree. This is a 9
mgb file when compressed so I didn't feel I should send it.

   A note about the clear, cloudless sky in the image. Clear and sunny days are
an extremely rare event where I live and I feel, as I think others do too, that
they should be captured and placed in a museum for all to look at when the
gloomy days of winter arrive. Thats why there aren't any clouds in my image.

