TITLE: American Radio
NAME: Larry Page
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: taymac@peaknet.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.peaknet.net/~taymac/
TOPIC: Old Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: american.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray

TOOLS USED: 
    3d Studio Max and Moray for Modeling, Pov-Ray to render

RENDER TIME: 
    Approx. 5 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway Pent 4, 2gig. processor, about 1000 RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

American Radio Still Life

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As a child during the 50's I grew up in the golden age of Television, and the
declining years of Radio. We had a Philco Radio, and a B&W Philco Television
set, that were used to the max. And many Saturday mornings were spent awaiting
the T.V. repairman and his tools and tube testing kit to arrive and set things
back in order. My brother and I allways got the old tubes, that we used to
create small robots and rocket ships out of, because with all the glass copper
and chrome that made the vacuum tubes work, they lended themselves well to the
creation of the objects mentioned....So with that in mind I set about creating
this scene, a lot of time was spent creating image maps, ang practice models of
differant types and styles of vacuum
tubes, The scene contains many other objects of the repairmans trade soldering
iron, spare tubes, magazines and manuals...many test renderings were done for
the right lighting,soft shadows and caustics. I still love looking at those old
radios and tv's from that era, but next came the transistors, then the digital
age, It would probably be tough to render and model on a vacuum powered
processor....so I guess progress is ok....

