TITLE: G-Theme
NAME: Grimbert J.
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: jgrimbert@free.fr
WEBPAGE: http://jgrimbert.free.fr/
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gtheme.jpg
ZIPFILE: gtheme.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.61

TOOLS USED: 
    Pen, paper

RENDER TIME: 
    about 22 hours per iteration for 1200x900 with +AA0.3

HARDWARE USED: 
    P4 2.4GHz under W2000Pro

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Toys & Games which start with a G.
Not a lot in fact... There is Go, Gomuku and a building magnet system
whose name might be subjet to trademark.
If you can name another, well, I missed it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I first was playing with the building magnet system, 
trying to make the platonician solid. The dimension are the ones found
for the real things, but the design is different.
Then come the need to have an environment for them.
And to have also some classical games too.
Chess was such a classical expectation that I dismiss it soon (along
with the workload of making an original set of pieces). 
Instead, I was struck with the idea of games and toys starting with G*.
So, a goban just get in. Perusing an old match published a long time ago,
I get the placement on the goban (and for the curious, white wins, by only
1 & 1/2 points).
Two objects do not make a theme, so the search for new object starts.
That's how Gomuku gets in. (and for the curious, green wins).

Despite the magnet everywhere, the walls were too empty. 
So, a picture was to get in too. But which picture ?
I hesitate between a simple pov-logo, the pov-biscuit picture, and
the image itself, recurring.
Due to possible IRTC-rules problems, I finally choose to have the recursion.
And then, I get back at the magnet toys.


For all the previews, the picture renders quickly as long as the area-light
was off. But I wanted them, and large ones too!
For the final rendering, I duplicated the pov-script, so that script A used
picture B and script B used picture A. 
I then queue script A and B alternatively a few times and let it render for
a long week-end (starting a Friday noon, to end in the night of the following
tuesday!).


