TITLE: The Da Vinci Helicopter
NAME: Nathan O'Brien
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: no13@ozemail.com.au
WEBPAGE: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~no13
TOPIC: Physics and Maths
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 13pimath.jpg
ZIPFILE: 13pimath.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Autocad & customised LSP routines

RENDER TIME: 
    2 days 10 hours 28 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133 with 64Mb ram, Nt4 OS

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


This image is a tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci. A man who was a physicist, before
there were
physicists, and a mathematician of true genious. The render is of the invention
that IMO best
represents his talents in these two fields ; The Da Vinci Helicopter.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


As the original sketch for the Da Vinci helicopter was exactly that, a sketch
and not a
resolved design, I decided to apply the same restrictions on the render. The
model of the
helicopter is very sketchy, and there are some areas that are unresolved. The
room in which the
helicopter is placed is also unresolved in detail. Another feature of the image
is the
primarily monochromatic pallet.

The helicopter spiral blade was created using a DeJong Box. I grabbed the
original DeJong Box
file from the POVray CD rom and upgraded the code to POV3 syntax. The rest of
the image 
modelling is very simple. A classical room (roughly of the same time as Da
Vinci) was created
using my Column Plugin and drafted in Autocad.

Finally the image was rendered using an atmospheric effect to give depth and
texture to the
image along with some standard radiosity settings to give form to the
architectural relief.
Also note the use of a carefully placed mirror to make the corridor to the left
look longer 
without having to model it the entire length.


