Maybe didn't make it to IRTC but there's still the POV-Fest!
I can't see a connection with any other light source in the room either
for the one seemingly under the bed. Also, the arc of illumination on the
picture wall, that regular caustics (non-photon) or a result of the light
object?


Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> It seems I've been a little late to submit this image to the
> IRTC "History" round, so I'm showing it here...
> 
> EMAIL             : 101### [at] compuservecom
> NAME              : Fabien MOSEN
> TOPIC             : HISTORY
> COPYRIGHT         : I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
> COPYRIGHT
> TITLE             : Het achterhuis
> COUNTRY           : BELGIUM (french speaking)
> WEBPAGE           :
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/chkpage.htm
> RENDERER USED     : POV 3.1e
> TOOLS USED        : sPatch, Corel,
> RENDER TIME       : 3 hours
> HARDWARE USED     : AMD K6/233 - 128 Mb
> 
> IMAGE DESCRIPTION :
> 
> Holland, 1942.  Anne Frank (14) and her family, being Jews and wanting
> to avoid being sent to concentration camps (they knew very well what
> these camps were), with the help of one on the father's employees,
> had to hide themselves in an "achterhuis" (backhouse), which was built
> at the back of a pretty normal house.  The achterhuis comprised several
> rooms,
> and was linked to the house by a secret bookshelf that was in fact a
> door.
> 
> While they lived hidden, Anne, the younger girl, started to write a
> diary,
> where she was writing letters to a fictious "Kitty", to who she told
> everything
> about how they lived, her feelings...
> 
> August 4, 1944, the nazis discovered their hiding place, and they were
> sent in concentration camps where all the family died (killed, or
> victims
> of epidemy).  Anne died in march 1945, only a few days before the camps
> were liberated.  Only her father, Otto Frank, survived.  After the end
> of the war,
> he found the diary and published it.
> 
> The diary is a unique testimony about what the Jews (and everyone who
> has to hide)
> could feel, how they lived in that situation.  The particular point of
> view,
> in the diary of a young girl, makes the book amazing and poignant.
> 
> For more complete information : www.annefrank.com
> 
> The image is an attempt to recreate Anne's room, where she slept, and
> where
> she wrote her diary, on a small desk.
> 
> important note : this image is an *illustration*; while it was seriously
> documented,
> time constraints and variations amongst the source docs prevent it to be
> absolutely
> accurate; so, again, it's just an ILLUSTRATION.
> 
> DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED :
> 
> - bought and read the book.  While I was aware of it, I never had the
> opportunity
> to read it.  As I said before, it is amazing.
> 
> - a few days after I bought the book, I've been informed that an Anne
> Frank exhibition
> will be held in my city between March and April.  Great !  I had the
> opportunity
> to collect every information I was missing, especially about the room
> itself.
> 
> - I had to do "reverse" perspective : extracting actual dimensions from
> a photograph.
> Glad I learned perpective in school !
> 
> - everything else is patient modelling job :
>   curtain and magazines on the shef are HF's
>   cushion and bedsheets are sPatch modelling
>   everything else is CSG
> 
> The deadline is near, and I don't have the time to explain too much
> detail !
> Also, I don't see anything that needs too much explanation ;)
> If you still want to know something else, write me !
> 
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