Hello all

Let me first say thank you very much for all the kind comments, I'm
overwhelmed! =)
I've posted some the flaws in the image elsewhere, so I'll leave them
out here..

***Photorealism:***
"Frankly, this may be one of the most photorealistic POV-Ray creations
that I've ever seen for such a relatively complex scene." "Photorealism
like this hasn't been possible until recently, and I'm facinated by the
"eye" of artists who can pick up and create what it takes to make images
look real" "The realism of this image is astounding"
I'm not sure I deserve statements like this :) Thank you very much, I'm
flattered!
My self-confidence likes to get the highest technically score. I've been
using POV-Ray for 4 years now, and I have some experience. I got to do a
lot of SDL modelling and tweaking, which I'm very fond of. But somehow I
feel like I'm cheating a bit since the lighting and radiosity depends so
heavily on others excellent work?

***Image setup and creation process:***
I decided to make a razor, and then a bathroom to put it in. The mirror
was put in from the start, and I liked the effect very much. At first I
was going for a closeup of the razors, seeing only the lower part of the
mirror and a bit of the sink. But as the process went on, I got fond of
the bathroom and the radiosity, so the view was moved to see more of the
objects. I belive it became an overall better image, but the concept
drowned a bit.

***The 60's:***
As mentioned in the .txt file, I've never experienced the 60's. So it
was a mixture of poor refernce pics, advice from my mother, wild
guessing and a interior design book from the 80's :)
"I also found it odd that the sink doesn't have any cabinet doors. :-)"
Me too, but almost all the reference pictures I found had sinks like
this, with no cabinets. What a waste of space..  :-)

***Concept:***
"a minor nitpick is that the electric razor was invented about 1930".
Without being too sure, I belive the Remington electric razor was (at
least one of) the first _rechargable_ razors, created in ~1960. The
title should perhaps've been "Bathroom 1960 - Is rechargable electric
razors the future?" :-D
There is an double old technology meaning in the scene, the whole
bathroom and everything is old, and the there is the hand razor (old)
which lies in the shadow of the electric razor ("new").
The story goes like this: It's noon. The bathroom owner (let's call him
Mr. Bath) has just returned from the store with a new rechargable razor.
Mr. Bath takes it to the bathroom to charge it up, he pushes the old
hand-razor away to make place for the new invention. He plugs in the
charger, but something distracts him and he leaves the ad he got from
the shop and leaves the bathroom, turning off the light (forgot to make
a lamp ;), leaving the door open so the light flows into the room.
I changed the title of the image in the very last minute, because
someone mentioned it might be hard to see the razor. The title got a bit
too long, but I hoped it would help to understand the concept better. It
shouldn't have been nessecary though, a image should talk for itself.

One thing I like about the image is that it's modelled and rendered with
totally free tools! (PSP6 is not free though.. But it could've been done
with The Gimp).

If you're interested in some development images and the PNG version, I'm
going to update my homepage soon. I hope to do it next week. A higher
res. image might also get available.


-Peter
http://hertel.no/peter

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