TITLE: Silver Ghost
NAME: Larry Boston
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: larryboston@dialmaine.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Great Inventions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: lbgiauto.jpg
TOOLS USED: 

Corel Painter 6, Paint Shop Pro-7, Microsoft Paint,Objpov   


RENDER TIME: 
    14 min
 

HARDWARE USED: 

    PENTIUM III 733, 512 RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        Several years ago I took a trip to Novia Scotia on the Cat. There were a
lot of Rolles Royces
and Bentlys aboard. I didn't see any 1909 Silver Ghosts, but here were some
impressive vehicles. 
I decided to make the Silver Ghost because  I thought it would be easier that
some other cars 
because of its straight lines, but it wasn't as easy as I thought. I think I
will take a more 
organized approach in the future to avoid redoing large portions of the major
objects.
Since I have been using POV for quite a while I should know better,but I must be
a slow learner.
        The Auto must be a  great invention, since I don't like horse and
walking across country doesn't
appeal to me, even though I walked a lot when I was young.   


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The Silver Ghost was constructed using CSG except for the hood ornament that is
a converted poser object 
using objPOV. The driver is also converted from Poser to POV using objPOV.

The stone wall texture was created using a POV file using differences between
boxes and prisms to cut 
out rocks from superellipsoids. The resulting image was used as an image map. MS
Paint was used
to cut and paste some of the stones that didn't look good. Corel Painter 6 was
used to 
convert the TGA files and alter the brightness of the TGA files.

The sky was made to look like a watercolor by applying crand to a nearly
transparent sky_sphere inside the
sky_sphere with clouds.

The sidewalk was created using a while loop to translate boxes and vary the
color.

The trees were made using Gilles Tran's tree macro.

The small portion of grass in front of the wall was made using LawnMaker from
Uwe Gleiss. 



 
 


