I don't usually do still images these days, but:

The image took about 3 hours to render. Most of the lighting work is being
done by radiosity, although there are three very dim point-lights present.

The knife, ruler and paper were made in Wings3D and took about 10 minutes
each - I was very impressed with Wings, as I hadn't used it much prior to
this. I intend to clean up the knife a bit where the low number of polygons
is obvious (near and far ends of the handle). The speckled pattern on the
ruler is (I think) because I used  infinite planes for the walls. The marks
on the ruler are made with a bump_map. The only textures on the knife are
solid pigments.

The images on the paper came out better than I expected - I rendered the
ship from several different viewpoints, ran the results through an
edge-detection filter in an image-processing program and used the results
on the paper as an image_map. It's come out surprisingly like pencil
sketching, I think. I need to fix the colour of the paper, it's too grey.

I've been working on the main object for some time, and there is still a lot
to do. However, I thought it was perfectly suited in its half-finished form
for a scene like this.

The JPEG version is also at

http://www.zubenelgenubi.34sp.com/graphics/tm1.jpg

There is a PNG version (500K) at

http://www.zubenelgenubi.34sp.com/graphics/tm1.png

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Outstanding. How did you model the ship itself? Also Wings?

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"Roberto Amorim" <wol### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Outstanding. How did you model the ship itself? Also Wings?

Thanks. The ship's made up from about 1,500 POV primitives (mainly prisms,
boxes, cylinders and spheres), input using the POVRay for Windows built-in
editor (that's less typing than it sounds, thanks to loops).

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Tom York wrote:

> I don't usually do still images these days, but:
> 

VERY nice.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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This is a beautiful picture with an even more impressive conception.
Makes me wonder what it would look like if you can lifted it through
one of the views (bury on end and lift it so at the tail it is all
drawing and at the front it is raised above the drawing), so it looked
a little less like a step in modelling and a little more like an
artifact emerging from a design.

Obviously I liked it so much it has me trying to imagine more.

-Scott

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On Mon,  4 Oct 2004 04:25:58 EDT, "Tom York"
<alp### [at] zubenelgenubi34spcom> wrote:

>I don't usually do still images these days, but:
>

Holy carp!  That thing (space ship, I presume?)
is amazing.  It's a masterpeice of greebles.  Wow.

A read ahead in this thread and you say that you
made the ship entirely from pov-ray primatives.  Wow,
even more.

I've never done any greeblage this cool (not for
lack of trying though)

Any greeble-making tips you'de care to share?

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[Not sure where my previous reply ended up]

I've fixed the paper colour and improved the craft knife. I also replaced
the infinite plane walls with boxes, although the speckling on the ruler
remains. I think the image is finished(!).


Scott David Daniels <Sco### [at] AcmOrg> wrote:
> This is a beautiful picture with an even more impressive conception.
> Makes me wonder what it would look like if you can lifted it through
> one of the views (bury on end and lift it so at the tail it is all
> drawing and at the front it is raised above the drawing), so it looked
> a little less like a step in modelling and a little more like an
> artifact emerging from a design.
>
> Obviously I liked it so much it has me trying to imagine more.
>
> -Scott

Thanks! I like your idea a lot - I've been trying to do this in POV since
you posted it. I've had some success, although there is quite a lot of
tweaking left to do. I hope to post the attempt when it's done.

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