TITLE: Looking at the Mirror
NAME: Petri T Ojamies
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi
WEBPAGE: www.helsinki.fi/~ojamies/
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pto05.jpg
ZIPFILE: pto05.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    GIMP

RENDER TIME: 
    15 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 450, 256 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Contrast between America and Europe is great in many ways.
But still these two are like two sides of a coin.
And like sides of a coin these two shall never realy meet
face to face.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This is simple.

Coin is made of three cylinders, one for each side and
one midlelayer to make smooth pigment-transformation.
I used bump_map to make the normal.

Board material is layered texture with gradient x
pigment below givin strong brown veins and granite pigment
on top to make random-lookin noise on the surface.

Mirror-box is csg object.

Few problems that still hount my mind
- How can I make the Euro look better - more metallic perhaps?
- Why mirror is so difficult to recognize as mirror?


