TITLE: Blind
NAME: Tom Nowacki
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: ice@teanow4pm.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.teanow4pm.demon.co.uk
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: blind.jpg
ZIPFILE: blind.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    CorelDraw 6

RENDER TIME: 
    0d 02h 06m 15s @ 1024 x 768 +a.1

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-200 MMX


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The Moor was thinking of a play, a nonexistent piece. The play
is about a blind man. Colors are what he imagines them to be, but
how far can your imagination reach in a day-to-day world that is
shrouded in a perpetual blanket of never-ending night? And so...
Let there be light!

Magicus Oculus

Cast Of Characters
RALPH, a blind man in his forties
LUCETTE, a precocious teenager
ALMIGHTY ZEUS, son of Chronos
Playing time: about 20 minutes

Lights behind a stained glass lunette above the door, a gaping
black hole in the wall, dimly illuminate the set. RALPH is
ensconced in an armchair that may easily be mistaken for a
throne on a dais. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping
at my chamber door. RALPH puts the book aside. He walks briskly.
Before opening the door he switches on the light. Lo! Death
has reared himself a throne.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Then again, are not all magicians thieves among whom honor is
such a rare commodity? Or do you think so many rabbits can
suddenly appear out of nowhere? My guess is they must all come
out of the same hat. Before I go any further, who would like to
see my new rabbit trick? OK, the ayes have it. Next order of
business: How to make a rabbit vanish, speaking of which, has
anybody seen my Poe? Please share your copies if you don't have
one. Dammit, don't steal them!

I have nearly exhausted my repertory --

No rays from holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently -
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free -
Up domes - up spires - up kingly halls -
Up fanes - up Babylon-like walls -
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of scultured ivy and stone flowers -
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.
...

Eyes -- halos halos halos

Skull and crossbones + first stanza of 'The City in the Sea'
by E. A. Poe -- imported.

Throne -- blob shape sans everything that does not look albeit
remotely like a throne.

Fanlight -- Linear T (lineart) colored in.

SOURCES:
Sources include two imagemaps and a heightfield in
Adobe Illustrator (ai) format. They can be opened in
Photoshop 4 and saved as gif or targa files, if you
need them for rendering.

