TITLE: Modern Weapons
NAME: Ruy Flavio de Olivera
COUNTRY: Brazil
EMAIL: ruy@hipernet.com.br
TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mdrnwrfr.jpg
ZIPFILE: mdrnwrfr.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5 b1-6

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Draw (ticket cover) and Adobe PhotoShop (WTC photo)

RENDER TIME: 
    37h25m14s

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 1GHz 512MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


On September 11 war was declared on the USA. The weapons chosen were not based
on gun powder, lead, explosives and the sort. They were, in fact, of a much
simpler and more ordinary nature: boxcutters and plane tickets. I chose to
depict these "weapons" (despite all the controversy I have seen on the
irtc.general newsgroup) in order to show how things we usually take for granted
may not turn out as we envisioned them, sometimes to our (great) loss. I have
given a lot of thought to it before setting to design and render this scene. I
chose to design this scene because even though it might be labeled as "tacky"
(as it was implied in the group), I believe the message is important: in this
case the devil was indeed in th details, and we will not profit anything by
ignoring them. I would have depicted one of the Anthrax letters, but I didn't
have the time.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I thought of this image on Sep/15, but didn't decide to design it until Sep/26.
It took me one day to design the floor and three more to design the box cutter.
Both are CSG. All the illumination is achieved by radiosity, and I had the
darnest time getting rid of the artifacts.

