Inspired by Mike Raiford's keen eye in spotting the povray image used 
for an image on cracked.com, I thought it would be fun to make a quiz 
out of the idea.

I've taken 20 different povray images and clipped out a 64x64 pixel 
square from each.  The challenge is to identify which image each square 
came form.  Most of the images are reasonably well known, but I threw a 
few tougher ones in there just to be a jerk.

Since you could pretty easily solve most of these just by browsing 
though the hall of fame or the irtc, try to solve them first without 
looking anything up.  If you can't remember the name of the artist or 
image a good description of what the full image looks like works too.

If I left out your favorite image or you think that 64x64 makes the 
challenge way too tough please feel free to post another such quiz -- 
particularly since I'd like to try my hand at solving one which I didn't 
design :)


Bonus Questions:

A) What special about image #16

B) Images #8 and #10 both have a pov-newsgroup related backstory behind 
them.  What are these backstories?

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Let's see...


#11 appears to be from the scene that became POV-Ray 3.6's splash screen.

#3 is that shot showing your RGB pixels in close-up (including the 
people living there... SIMs, maybe?)

#4 must be "the wet bird" or whatever it's called... Giles Tran IIRC.

#16 is what became POV-Ray 3.7's splash screen.


 From here, things start getting difficult, but not impossible yet:


#10 is the infamous AWSOME (sic!) ROLEX (good choice, jerk :-)). 
Background story in short: Epic FAIL of some guy trying to impress the 
POV-Ray community.

#7 is called "the preacher" IIRC - a seagull perched on a giant stone 
egg, surrounded by more seagulls.

#20 is probably that "Pearl Harbor" shot.


Unfortunately, that's about as far as I get without serious guessing.


#15 reminds me of a cellular-automaton-generated render, but I'm a bit 
in doubt.

#8 reminds me of a shot from the recent IRTC test round, showing a 
deteriorated RSOP as well as a much larger, greebled sphere; that shot 
in turn reminded me of an ingenious "RSOP WIP" shot with scaffolding and 
stuff posted in the p.b.i some while ago.

#5 reminds me of a shot by (I guess) Giles Tran, set in a futuristic 
world with some robot police drones flying around, and some presumably 
homeless drunkard trying to hide from them.

#6 reminds me of "Innocent Shadow", though I'm not sure whether the 
angle of the bricks is really fitting.

#9 is probably from a shot titled something like "<WhatsHerName>'s 
World" - a shot strongly remniscient of Antoine de Sainte-Exupery's 'Le 
Petit Prince'. If you know the shot and Exupery's sketches for his book, 
you know what I mean...


As for #1, #2, #12, #13, #14, #17, #18 and #19, I'm quite lost...


There. Now I'm going to check the Hall of Fame...

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clipka schrieb:
> 
> As for #1, #2, #12, #13, #14, #17, #18 and #19, I'm quite lost...
> 
> 
> There. Now I'm going to check the Hall of Fame...

Found #13 (man, I didn't even know this detail was in there!)

Found that I was right with #15 (somewhat to my own surprise).

Identified #1.

Found I was right with #6 after all (didn't remember the shot to be 
/that/ slanted).

Found that I'm probably wrong about #11 after all, and definitely wrong 
about #8.


Found #14 (after a long search).

#2, #12, #17, #18 and #19 (and #8 and #11) remain unaccounted for - I 
don't have much hope of ever being able to dig them up...

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Kevin Wampler wrote:

> I've taken 20 different povray images and clipped out a 64x64 pixel 
> square from each.  The challenge is to identify which image each square 
> came form.  Most of the images are reasonably well known, but I threw a 
> few tougher ones in there just to be a jerk.


Hmm. #16 is obviously that underwater one (whatever the hell it's 
called). #14 looks like it might be that render of the London Natural 
History Museum that somebody did a while back. And it looks plausible 
that #17 is the tea and biscuits scene that renders every time you 
instill WinPOV. (Something keeps telling me #1 is the benchmark scene, 
but I don't think it is.)

Hmm, OK. So, comprehensive failure then?

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Invisible wrote:

> Hmm, OK. So, comprehensive failure then?

Ooo, wait a sec - #15 looks like that crazy violent circuit board thing.
And #11 might conceivably by the splash screen from WinPOV.

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clipka wrote:
> #2, #12, #17, #18 and #19 (and #8 and #11) remain unaccounted for - I 
> don't have much hope of ever being able to dig them up...

I think you got #11 right after all.  All in all really impressive, 
particularly considering how accurate your guesses were.  Except for #19 
I think all the ones remaining are less well-known, so you can rest easy 
that you've basically solved the main part of it.  I'll post an answer 
key in a few days for the curious.

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Invisible wrote:
> Hmm. #16 is obviously that underwater one (whatever the hell it's 
> called). #14 looks like it might be that render of the London Natural 
> History Museum that somebody did a while back. And it looks plausible 
> that #17 is the tea and biscuits scene that renders every time you 
> instill WinPOV. (Something keeps telling me #1 is the benchmark scene, 
> but I don't think it is.)
> 
> Hmm, OK. So, comprehensive failure then?


I don't think #1 has ever been a benchmark scene and you're off on #17, 
but I think the rest of your guesses are correct (including #15 and 
#11).  Nice catch on #14 as well, I was a bit worried nobody would 
recognize that one.

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#3 is that image where there are hexagonal cells, each having some
theme inside. I don't remember the round it was related to. I remember
the image in general, but not details.

  #4 rather obvious. Shouldn't even be necessary to say. Bird, rainy day...
If someone doesn't know this image he should forever hide in shame.

  #5 futuristic robotic police patrolling streets, with a bum sleeping
in the alley. One of the most famous POV-Ray artists of the past, sadly
went to greener pastures (and rival renderers) many years ago. Damned if
I remember his name now, shame on me.

  #6 shadow of a girl jumping the rope. I think it was an allusion to an
atomic bomb blast leaving a permanent shadow on the wall.

  #10 awsome rolex?

  #11 winner of the "water" round. Has a prominent shadow artifact in one
of the rocks in the lower edge of the image.

  #16 winner of the POV-Ray compo. I think it was named "The Guardian" or
something like that.

  #18 was this the one with the dinosaurs playing instruments? Or am I
completely confusing things here?

  #20 Pearl Harbor?

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Warp wrote:

>   #4 rather obvious. Shouldn't even be necessary to say. Bird, rainy day...
> If someone doesn't know this image he should forever hide in shame.

I was surprised not to find the Wet Bird anywhere here. And then I 
realised that IT IS HERE. O_O

The cropped image doesn't even remotely resemble how I remember that 
image; it's far too light (I remember the image as rainy and almost 
black), and the lamp post is the wrong shape (I was certain it's the 
other way around too), and the background looks like interior wallpaper 
rather than a building. It looked for all the world like a bird sitting 
on the side of a birdcage in somebody's front room.

I fail. :'{

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I somehow thought you'd know a lot of these, and I was not dissapointed. 
  Also, nice catch on #18 -- that's an old image.  The artist you're 
thinking of is H.E. Day btw.  I wonder what he's up to these days, he 
was quite talented.

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