Raytracing Competition -October 95


               Author: David Roman Kominek
                Title: Quadra Courtyard
Date:  start (design): October 20
      finish (design): October 25
            raytracer: Pov 2.2
             modeller: pencil, a ruler and lots of paper!
               e-mail: Lobo@matrix.infomatch.com

 total rendering time: 1 hour and 12 minutes
on a 75MHz Pentium (at 1024x600 with antialiasing at 0.3 )

I got the idea for this image from the University Building that my older
brother goes to. It is the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia,
Canada. All design for this project was done by hand. I started with the
pond in the centre of the place. The thing is that once I got about half
way through it the scene began looking more like a jail house rather than
a school, so I made a sky really dark and moody and then I added weak lights
so that I could make one lage spotlight the shines down on the place, you
know, like they have in the courtyards in the jails. I made all the windows
transparent so you can see in. Actually that turned out quite good, since you
can see highlights in the corner of the windows on the top floor from the
weak sun pearing in from behind the camera. Only one post-process was done
on this image and that, if not obvious is the lens flare. That's all I can
think to write about the scene but if you have any questions,...

Feel free to e-mail me any comments, ideas, etc.

                                DRK 95