TITLE: Geometry
NAME: Samuel J. Goldstein
COUNTRY: The country you are a citizen of
EMAIL: libelle@webbwerks.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.cyberverse.com/~meander
TOPIC: Math & Physics
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: geo.jpg
ZIPFILE: geo.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-ray 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    5 hours 6 minutes 46.0 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Powermac 8500/180MP

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Geometry is the mystical place where mathematics becomes Interesting.

This is a tip of the (virtual) hat to the anonymous Islamic artists of ages
past, who did beautiful, complicated things using simple geometric rules.

It's an attempt to show the pure, conceptual image transcending the
physical representation on paper.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

It's extremely simple. It's all height_maps and image_maps, with a small
handful of lighting thrown in.

I tried to do it "for real" by programming the geometrical rules for the
arabesque directly as a POV-ray iteration, but I ran out of patience (then
memory). And I was only trying a very simple pattern. I haven't given up
yet, but I wasn't going to make the deadline, so I did it this way. 

