TITLE: Shades of Longing
NAME: Brian Blovett
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: brianblovett@mac.com
WEBPAGE: http://homepage.mac.com/brianblovett/
TOPIC: Absence
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sol.jpg
ZIPFILE: sol.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    3min 30sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    PowerMac Dual 2.0 Ghz, 1GB ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

She has left me forever, leaving a gaping wound in my heart. My life slowly
drips away, draining the color away with it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is a reworking of an image I used for a CD cover a few years ago. The songs
on it were all about unrequited love, so the image fit. For this version, I had
the heart turn pale toward the top, and I moved the heart, light, and camera
around a bit to emphasize the lonely feeling of the image. The heart itself is
a cubic spline, intersected with a box, and merged with a mirror image of
itself (all the better for creating smooth curves that meet at sharp points. Of
course, the hole is just the result of a difference command, and the blood is a
blob. Nothing too strenuous, as you can imagine.

