I'll try to recap our preliminary discussion.

Unfortunately I don't have any spare web space.
That's why as a first step we could post images in
p.b.images newsgroup. Maybe later on somebody will
shelter the project.

Assuming that project name is 'Super Still Life'
posted images could have the following names:
ssl-1.jpg, ssl-2.jpg etc.

This weekend I'll try to prepare a template scene -
ssl-template.pov I think the only "solid" stuff in
the scene will be the table and camera position. That
will allow seamless flow from one image to another.
I'm afraid that pre-defined lights and background
will be too restrictive. More likely I'll use isowood
by Christoph Hormann for the table. If you have any
ideas for another table material please let me know.

You are free to use any lighting, HDRI, radiosity and
post-processing. The initial image must be rendered
in POV-Ray. Image size is a question for discussion.
I suggest to use 800*600 so that horizontal scroll
wouldn't take too much time :) But you should be ready
to render your scene in magazine/poster resolution in
case any Museum of Modern Arts will ask for exposition :)

There is no any particular theme. So povers are free
to use everything they consider as a Still Life. It could
comprise of fruits, vegetables, meat, fast food, any
exotic dishes from different cuisines, any kitchen
utensils, glasses, goblets etc. etc. etc. You can also
put your own table cloth on the table. Just keep table
edges open so that next image could be "connected" to
yours. Fantasy and creativity should be one of the main
"components" of the image. Because of different moral,
religious and ethic norms in different countries be
cautious with nudes, erotic and sexual scenes.

This is a free and non-commercial project. Everybody
keeps all rights on his/her image, scene. Nobody has
a copyright for the whole project/images. Availability
of source files is not required. Authors can put their
names/signatures on images, preferably as embedded
somehow to the image (e.g. free-hand writing on a
napkin etc.).

Everybody is welcomed to join the project. The number
of entries is unlimited. Just make sure that they are
really differ from each other :) When you finish your
image just take next available name for the image
(ssl-x.jpg where 'x' is a next available number) and
display it in p.b.images. Please use the following
subject for your posting:
SSL-x
where 'x' is a number of your image.

And finally there is no deadline. Let's work on it
whenever we have spare time.

Hopefully I covered everything :)

Gena.

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