 This image was the 3rd-place runner up in the Internet Ray-Tracing Competition (IRTC). The IRTC was resurrected in 2009 after a 3-year hiatus.  This is a completely hand-scripted scene rendered in an old custom build of POV-Ray.  A grand piano that I modeled in Moray.  A rose, also modeled in Moray. I remember this one took a very long time to render, on account of the texture.  I scripted this with a macro one evening before the IRTC deadline. The image did not do well in that round, but it has some pleasing aspects nevertheless.  First in a series of space-themed images I made, this was modeled in a free-as-in-beer modeler called PovSb. This ship is based on an actual model that I made from left over pieces of other airplane model kits and bits of card paper.  A ray-tracey alien planetscape.  A painterly landscape rendered in POV-Ray and processed with Gimp. |  I made this image with the use of Gilles Tran's fine Pipes macro.  Another IRTC entry that did OK. I liked ultra-saturated, fantastic scenery.  Based on a ship drawing in "The Lore of Ships," this images was modeled in Moray. I post-processed it with Gimp in order to give it a painterly quality.  This was rendered with an earlier version of POV-Ray where volumetrics were first simulated. I used Moray to created the window model.  A flag I modeled. No racial undertones are intended (I realize that some are offended by these colors, much as the Nazi flag offends others for similar reasons).  I've been told that this ship evokes images of flying hair blowers. I was captivated by the new POV-Ray feature for "halos." These were nicely faked in earlier versions of POV-Ray and have since been replaced with more legitimate atmospheric models.  A painterly landscape rendered in POV-Ray and processed with Gimp.  A study in multi-function texture to produce micro-facets in the resulting sphere. |