EMAIL: jpgargoyle@sapo.pt
NAME: Joo Paulo Silva
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Clich
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: irfan view v3.70 to convert to jpg
            CopyRightLeft 0.4 Beta to add copyright notice
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 32 minutes  41.0 seconds (9161 seconds)
HARDWARE USED: Pentim IV 1.60GHz 128Mb Ram (w/ Win2k sp2)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This is my first IRTC entry ever.
I've been willing to enter IRTC for a long time but due to lack of time it wasn't possible sooner.
This time I decided to enter with this image, that everibody might have think of or seen with lots of variations.
That's why this one is called "clich". I think this is an universal idea or something like that: lots of look alike
objects with one different in the middle.
NOTE: the sphere is black just to make  a bigger contrast in the middle of the cubes. It could have been any other color.
      I am not trying to make statements about racism or something like that.
      Just trying to show that you can be lonely even in the middle of lots of people.
NOTE2: the pic lost some quality (noticed around the sphere) when I converted it to jpg so I included a .png version in 
       the zip file. Check it out if you want to. Thnxs

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The geometry is as easy as it can be, a plane, cubes and a sphere.
The cubes are set using a double loop leaving an empty space at the origin to put the sphere there.
The camera has a slight tilt to make the image more interesting.
Took me about ten minutes to write and adapt the floor texture from another one I have and one week to play with
the radiosity settings and object textures.
Ended up using a copy of the radiosity tutorials "best settings".

I am not happy at all with it but I don't have the time to improve it so.. :P

Hope you like it.