TITLE: The Little Empty Theater
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ww_0202g.jpg
ZIPFILE: ww_0202g.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov 0.5a

TOOLS USED: 
    Text-Editor, PSP 4.0 (Compression and Text)

RENDER TIME: 
    3h 28m 19s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III - 1 GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A Theater displays if not is a world within our world. This one may be deserted
save a lonely chair remaining in the spotlight of this world and our
consciousness.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Well this image consists completely of hand-coded boxes and spheres (some
intersected or differenced) and light-sources (oh yes I think somewhere is a
camera).
After I had the Idea of creating an empty stage (the chair was later added
because the stage looked too empty) I began with the boards for the stage
floor. Everything else was built around these Boards.

Then I placed light-sources in the small stage lamps with a very short range and
the spotlight pointed to the center of the stage. A darker area light source
simulates scattered light comming from the audience-room and finally a
shadowless lightsource above the stage gives little ambient light for the dark
corners.

Finally I created the textures beginning with the brick wall surrounding the
whole theater and containing a little atmospheric media to enhance the
spotlight beam. For everything else I primarily used wood textures (even for
the curtain) and bump maps. Only the floor and as already mentioned the back
wall have other textures (checker and brick).

