Poems and Raytraces

I have just uploaded my poems and raytracing projects. I have intermittently dabbled with the Moray wire modeller and POV-Ray raytracer last year. It's been quite some time since I did any raytracing. I can't wait to see how both raytracing programs have evolved.

All of my traces were done on a PIII 1.1 GHZ laptop. Maybe I can crank out more raytraces now that I have a faster workstation. Watch out for more raytracing projects from moi.

Raytracing: Glass of Water Molecules

A glass of water molecules [sic]. No effort was made to check surface intersection between water molecules inside the glass.

Render time: 16 minutes 02 seconds.

Think Tank

My first raytracing project.

First of all, this is a light bulb with a water closet inside. This was modelled using Moray and rendered using POV-Ray. The image was manipulated with WebGrafix to add the starburst.

This was originally an image that was used for the main page of this site. The idea [sic] is that the washroom [representative of the water closet] is a wellspring of ideas.

Isn't that sickening?

Glass Ledge

This is a rendering of one of the ledges that we have in the dining room of our house. The legs of the taller candle holder makes use of Moray's B-Spline plugin. Most of the other forms like the votive, the brass flame snuffer [?] and blue glass votive used the rotational sweep technique.

Some rendering details [notice the white area where a shadow would have been] lost due to conversion from tiff to png.

Render time: 2 minutes 36 seconds

Miscellaneous Shapes

Testing Moray and POV-Ray settings. A study in various shapes with different reflectivity and refraction indices.

A blue metal cone at the back, chrome sphere, gold torus, glass ruby cylinder with a green glass-colored cube, glass superquartic -- all resting on a refelctive surface of revolution.

Render time: About 2 minutes.

Piggy

Another basic use of primitive shapes. This one uses a the union, merge and difference composites using the USG Moray plugin.

Render time: 5 minutes