TITLE: tc2
NAME: Verm
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: pov@thirteen.dynu.com
TOPIC: This is not a checkered plane
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tc2.jpg
ZIPFILE: 
RENDERER USED: 

    PovRay 3.6

TOOLS USED: 

    Just Gimp for Jpeg conversion.


RENDER TIME: 
    18 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel T7600 2.33GHz 


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A literal interpretation of the theme. 
Locked in some underground vault, expecting a chess game and you get faced with a game of Go.

..ooOO Hmmm This is not a chequered plane.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Models are just standard csg.  

I'd not made a chess set or goban before so felt this was an ideal chance.

The main aim for me was to pratice texturing things. 

The textures for the chess pieces and the Go board are adapted from Warp's tutorial,
http://warp.povusers.org/povtips/.

The vault's walls and ceilings have my own brick texture on and the walls are placed/rotated by my first macro.

I'm happy with the chess set (except the knight) and learnt a lot doing the bricks around the ceiling, but I ran out of time before I had a chance to add an extra layer of textures on things to make them dirty.

Render time was increased by area lights, AA, focal blur and radiosity, as otherwise it rendered in 10 seconds.