EMAIL: brianallenprice@aol.com
NAME: Brian A. Price
TOPIC: Before And After
COPYRIGHT: No, Copyleft.  Everything I have created here is hereby 
in the public domain, “Poof!”
TITLE: Reganomics
COUNTRY: United States of America
WEBPAGE: NA
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray, PoseRay, Abaro, and PaintShop Pro 4 to convert 
to JPEG
RENDER TIME: 5 hours 1 minute, and 58 seconds 
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 350, 128 MB RAM

IMAGE DISCRIPTION:

I titled this image, “Reganomics”.

This is my interpretation of a white, middle class neighborhood in 
the US - well before “Reganomics”, and then some years after.

On the left is an interpretation of a neighborhood sometime in the 
mid 1950’s, when the American Foursquare house was still affordable 
for middle class Americans.

On the right is an interpretation of a neighborhood sometime in the 
late 1980’s, after deregulation, the squeeze on middle class income, 
etc…

Of course this is all subjective, as art should be.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This is the first real “scene” I have ever produced in POV-Ray.  
I had to learn a lot on the way, which is one reason I did not submit 
the code for the scene (a little messy and not anything real special 
in there).  I wish I would have had more time to work on it, but 
honestly I got burned out on it.  But I sure did have a lot of fun 
making it.

The houses on the left were made box by box.  The smoke from the 
smokestack is a just a bunch of spheres.  The grass is a bunch of 
height-fields. The cars I downloaded free from the internet. The 
trees and bushes were made using Arbaro.  Beyond that, there is not 
much else to say.