TITLE: Venice
NAME: Fabien MOSEN
COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking)
EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: ...
TOPIC: WATER
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: fmvenice.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    PaintShop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour (my shortest ever for IRTC !)

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6 - 64 Mb (128 soon...)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A view of Venice, from the interior of the Querini foundation
(a painting museum).  The iron grid is the work of famous
Italian architect Carlo Scarpa who restored the foundation in
the 70s.  The grid, building and exterior view are quite arranged,
due to the lack of documentation, or to avoid endless modelling...
The cat is there because there are many cats freely wandering in
Venice; people feed them happily because they once saved the city
from a rats' invasion.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Nothing special.  Painful extraction of dimensionnal information
for the grid, based on clueless photographs (nothing giving size 
information).  Water normal is an agate.  The cat and the boat are
stupid image_maps (oh, the boat comes from a 18th century painting by
Francesco Guardi).  Brickwork is some _a la_ Vives Piqueres mapped 
height_fields.

