Hello,
First of all I find it a very nice picture. Although there already exist
raytraced "copies" of some of Vermeer's paintings, using heavy (and
expensive) modeling and raytracing programs, this picture illustrates
how Povray can be used to obtain similar results, perhaps at the cost of
much manual modeling and programming.
As to the real dimensions of Vermeer's rooms a lot of work has be done.
Recently appeared a very interesting book "Vermeer's Camera" written by
Philip Steadman.
Herman

wich wrote:
> 
> The left one is no painting, but a mirror! (shouldn't be to difficult to
> model with Povray ;)  )
> http://www.mystudios.com/vermeer/14/vermeer-music-lesson-mirror.jpg
> 
> Nice job so far.
> 
> "Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:3d7e31fa@news.povray.org...
> > ...or Jean Baudrillard would have said: "simulation of a simulation"
> >
> > Well, at least a good exercise and a nice way to beat the time at
> > a rainy day. The original image is the cover art of the old bible for
> > graphics programmers:
> >
> >  "Dutch Interior, after Vermeer", 1987
> >  by J. Wallace, M. Cohan, and D. Greenberg, Cornell University
> >
> > I guess at this time they used some mainframe for doing the render.
> > The POV-Version is only lit with radiosity and took about 7h with
> > a 800MHz Athlon. I think the lighting in this scene looks even more
> > *real* than the original.
> > A version with higher error_bound setting was closer to the original
> > image and took only 1h. Not so bad.
> >
> > The POV scene was done with a lot of guessing, assuming, trial and
> > error to recreate the 3d scene from the 2D-image. Far away from
> > beeing perfect but this was the best I could do without loosing my
> > patience.
> >
> > The paintings on the wall are still a problem. I guessed they where
> > both by Rembrandt but it seems that this is only true for the second
> > (the bigger one). In the original version this image looks a little size
> > distorted (like they have used a wrong aspect ratio for the image
> > map) but I think it is the same painting.
> > Does anybody recognize the first one?
> > I have simply used another Rembrandt for the moment.
> >
> > If finally some of  you would like to copy the original Vermeer painting:
> >
> http://www.about-vermeer-art.com/vermeer/vermeer-oil-paintings/paintings/20.
> > html
> >
> >
> > questions, comments?
> > -Ive
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

-- 
Herman Serras
Gent (Belgium)
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hs/

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