TITLE: Mind's Eye
NAME: Gerard Schockmel
COUNTRY: Luxembourg
EMAIL: gs@thelostportal.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Engineering
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mindseye.jpg
ZIPFILE: mindseye.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV for Windows 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino, Moray 3

RENDER TIME: 
    1 30

HARDWARE USED: 
    Notebook Sager P120, 24 MegRAM, Win95b



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A look over the shoulder of one of the world's greatest artist and engineer,
Leonardo DaVinci. 

I imagine him sitting at his desk one late night, and his creation takes flight
in his mind's eye.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The image was mainly created with Moray 3 and hand-tweaked in POV. The basic
structure of the wing was modelled with Rhino, and completed with primitives. 

The glass-motive on the inkwell is a height-field, but doesn't come out too
well.

The quill was the biggest headache. First I constructed it out out 400 cylinders
and intersected it with a prism to get the shape, but the moire effect was too
intense. So I just took a prism and built a feather texture, which also cuts a
lot in rendertime (thanks to the helpful guy in c.g.r.r. who pointed this
out).

The sheet is a bicubic patch, with an drawing from Leonardo as an Image_Map.  

I joined the MDL file, but without the wing, as it sums up to about 10 Megs.

Cheers, and good luck to all.

