TITLE: "Placid Sequences"
NAME: Marco Semprini
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: super-rn@uol.it
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: placid.jpg
ZIPFILE: placid.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV3WIN ISOsurface Beta 18a (POV-Ray 3.02 unoffical patch)

TOOLS USED: 
    POVLAB 4.0 SP3, HF-LAB 0.84, CorelDraw 5.0, Aldus Photoshop 4.0

RENDER TIME: 
    1 Hour 7 Minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC Intel Pentium II 416 Mhz 333 overclocked
                    288 Mb Ram
                    ET6000 4 Mb MDRAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Quietly ACID! Might ever such uncommon feeling exist ?

    Well.. other events, that totally differ from  IRTC, brought  me
    to conceive  this  image; infact this picture corresponds  to  a
    trial of mine on imaging a CD Audio cover, basing my inspiration
    on the group name only: "Silicon Tranquillity" (tm).
    An impressive name, isn't it ??

    I would like to dedicate this image to all the dudes of Silicon
    Tranquillity project, wishing them good luck for their incoming
    goa-trance CD: Jrb, Nexus, Emolient, Matrix Cubed, DeepBlue and
    others.
    It will be out this winter under "Starchild Records inc." label!

    You can find/talk to them on #trax under IRCnet: they rock!  :)


RENDERING MUSIC:

    "Kabalah" (Astral Projection - from "Trust in Trance 3")

    genre: Goa-Trance, of course!  :P



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


    Now some explanations for those who don't know what is that 'object'
    lying on the sand: it's a Roland 303!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Roland Bassline 303 is an old (i.e. it's no more produced) analogue
    machine used in almost every Trance/Acid Techno tunes, because it
    can generate those 'lovely' acid bass sequences i fell in love with!

    Check out the ZIP file, because in it i have added a couple of 'perfect'
    images of Roland 303, and a sound file (.WAV) of an acid sequence, taken
    from the site '303 not found' mantained by Dupont!

    So... why an electronic machine under water ? This is the point!! :)))
    The bewilderment such object creates - being underwater - was my main
    aim. The same as finding an original 70's Hammond organ on Hymalaian
    peaks or an acoustic Pearl drumset inside an alien spaceship!  :P


    (Main modeller)

    The main used program is the great Denis Olivier's POVLAB 3D modeler!


    (In order of creation)

    Roland 303        - It was modeled within POVLAB, using POV primitives
                        (mainly superelissoids, boxes and capped cylinders)
                        and some CSG operations. The modeling took me some
                        hours, but i spent most of the time on creating and
                        positioning the image_maps (29 Mb of Targas created
                        with CorelDraw 5.0 OEM and exported at 'only' 300
                        dpi)

    The Sand          - It's an height_field created with John P. Beale's
                        HF-Lab 0.84 Beta (c) utility and textured by a POV
                        procedural texture. It's a 30 Mb Targa (3200x3200)!

    The Algaes and    - All the vegetations are converted 3DS/DXF meshes i've
    the Plants          found on the Net, converted into RAW format using
                        Thomas Baier's 3Dto3D 1.7 (c) utility.

    The Bubbles      - The bubbles were created within POVLAB, using Denis
                       Olivier's plug-in 'Bubbles', except for the nearest
                       ones, created and positionated manually.

    The Fishes       - Those fishes are a couple of 32 bit Targas, created
                       in Corel Draw 5.0. You can see the edges of those
                       Targas, due to the atmospheric feature! :(


                                                 Marco "ObLiQuE" Semprini

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                  I love to hear the sounds of fluffy clouds
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