TITLE: Shall we Play a Game?
NAME: Willem Bogaerts
COUNTRY: The Netherlands, Europe
EMAIL: w-p@dds.nl
WEBPAGE: http://huizen.dds.nl/~w-p/
TOPIC: contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: playgame.jpg
ZIPFILE: playgame.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1 for DOS

TOOLS USED: 

- "A POV-Ray Water Tutorial" by Mike Hough, which can be found at
http://free.prohosting.com/~olana/povray/mediawater/mediawater.html
- A program called "legocad". A friend of mine once mailed it to me as a joke,
saying is was the latest and hottest CAD program around. It constructs lego
structures and can save a structure in LDRAW format. It will barely run in
windows 3.1 with 32 bit driver, but it works. I don't know where it comes from
originally.
- L3P, an Ldraw-to-Pavray converter by Lars C. Hassing. It can be found at
http://www.ldraw.org/download/software/l3p
- Povray 3.1 for DOS. It can be found at http://www.povray.org
- LOTS of batchfiles....

RENDER TIME: 
    24 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    a 40Mhz 386 PC

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I made these missiles often for jet aircraft when I was a boy.
I tried the lego programs and converters and tried the model that I had made so
often: a missile. I took a simple waterplane to complete the scene and that's
where it originally started. I had no idea of an interesting scene; it was just
a conversion test. However, I liked the result and added a second flying
missile and the crashing one. Now this became interesting. Technically, because
the water around the last missile should 
be affected by the crash. I added foam, bubbles, etc. Only after I removed a
standard light and added the moon, I finally saw where this scene was going
to.
It was about the innocence of the child's play and the threat, no the ACT of
war. About lots of tiny and even relatively innocent things that can add up to
something that can destroy a planet. Yes, take a good view of the planet, while
it is still there. Look at the romantic view of the moon rising above the sea.
While the missiles are on their way...
Well, there's your contrast. To my shame I realised that I used to make missiles
much earlier in life than I loved the romantic view over the sea.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

see above. I include the total source file.



