I was going to do a montage of landscape flyovers for this TC-RTC 
animation round. Unfortunately, Real Life got in the way, and I realized 
I was not going to have anything meaningful together before the deadline.

Since I had already built a bunch of landscape meshes, I thought I'd 
find another use for them. :-)

I'm still not sure about the dimensions in this image (the ceiling is 
too low, and the landscapes may be spaced too far apart) and I have no 
idea yet how I want the lighting to finally look. Still, it's a start. :-)

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William Tracy
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With the lighting as it is, it made me think instantaneously of the 
"Musée des plans reliefs" we have here in Paris. It's a gallery 
regrouping 3-D models (physical, not virtual ;-) ) that were made along 
time of the most significant fortifications in France. Each of these 
models are lit from above but the rest of the gallery is in darkness.

You can see photos here:
http://www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr/index2.html
(unfortunately they chose to implement the website in flash and not to 
translate it in English :-\ Click on "Le Musée" and then on "La Galerie" 
to see images)

Perhaps it can serve as an inspiration...

-- 
Vincent

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William Tracy wrote:
> Since I had already built a bunch of landscape meshes, I thought I'd 
> find another use for them. :-)

Very cool.  Oddly enough, this brought to my mind the scene in the movie 
called "The Island" where the hero is running thru a dark room with 
spotlights on all the victims floating in air like that.

Nicely surreal, but needs different lighting IMO. Or put each landscape 
on a pedestal or some such.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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"William Tracy" <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> schreef in bericht 
news:47f7e9fb@news.povray.org...
>I was going to do a montage of landscape flyovers for this TC-RTC
> animation round. Unfortunately, Real Life got in the way, and I realized
> I was not going to have anything meaningful together before the deadline.
>
> Since I had already built a bunch of landscape meshes, I thought I'd
> find another use for them. :-)
>
> I'm still not sure about the dimensions in this image (the ceiling is
> too low, and the landscapes may be spaced too far apart) and I have no
> idea yet how I want the lighting to finally look. Still, it's a start. :-)
>

William, I like the low ceiling which gives an atmosphere of closeness, 
almost claustrophobic, which is in interesting contrast with the landscape 
which are supposed to represent space and room. The landscapes however, are 
spaced too far apart indeed. The lighting might be right but will depend on 
how you are going to texture the landscapes maybe. Darren suggested 
pedestals; that would be nice. An alternative would possibly be to hang the 
landscapes from the ceiling by the way of thin cords or chains.

Good start, really. I am waiting for further developments.

Thomas

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