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.
Friday, January 2, 2004
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
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Get The Load Off Our Backs!
Subsidies.
It seems like Uncle Sam has a habit of giving breaks to others on one hand and screwing up the rest on the other hand.
Just recently, a report came out on NBC Dateline describing how the government, in its effort to boost the use of ethanol additives for gasoline, subsidizes the corn industry. The report stated that it actually takes more energy to produce ethanol than it is to have the same amount of gasoline. Now ain't that a woozy?
I am not against additives in gasoline. For all I care, my car can run on additives alone AS LONG AS it is cost effective doing so. Such cost effectiveness should not come only in terms of the fuel being cheaper. How it is produced should also require less energy. Uncle Sam sells us the fuel cheaply and all of us look like we just won the sweepstakes. However, Uncle Sam sticks us with a big tax increase because we now have to increase subsidies to the corn and the ethanol industry. What goes around comes around. The Laws of Thermodynamics at work here.
We should just drop these subsidies, drop the high tarrifs on foreign produce and get competitive in the global market. I bet we can cheaply import a lot of products like corn instead of paying locally for higher corn prices.
Oh, and the reason why corn prices sometimes go down is that the government subsidizes it. Remember to equate "subsidy" with "just increase my taxes again, thank you!".
And what about the steel industry? Yessiree, bub! We're subsidizing it, too! Our local steel industries use antiquated technology that they can't compete with foreign steel manufacturers interms of output and quality. So what does the government do? Uncle Sam cuddles the local industry with subsidies at the expense of taxpayer's dollars. We're actually paying for our own industries' inefficiencies.
It's so pathetic that our local industries can't justly compete with the foreign markets. We are blindsided by the fact that we think that our economy is strong when in fact it is built upon a rickety system of subsidies and blatant protectionism.
If only our government will open up the markets to the world, perhaps we can truthfully see where the US economy lies in the global commerce. Perhaps then we can be more patriotic in promoting our local products and justly compete in the global market without thinking twice that we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
It seems like Uncle Sam has a habit of giving breaks to others on one hand and screwing up the rest on the other hand.
Just recently, a report came out on NBC Dateline describing how the government, in its effort to boost the use of ethanol additives for gasoline, subsidizes the corn industry. The report stated that it actually takes more energy to produce ethanol than it is to have the same amount of gasoline. Now ain't that a woozy?
I am not against additives in gasoline. For all I care, my car can run on additives alone AS LONG AS it is cost effective doing so. Such cost effectiveness should not come only in terms of the fuel being cheaper. How it is produced should also require less energy. Uncle Sam sells us the fuel cheaply and all of us look like we just won the sweepstakes. However, Uncle Sam sticks us with a big tax increase because we now have to increase subsidies to the corn and the ethanol industry. What goes around comes around. The Laws of Thermodynamics at work here.
We should just drop these subsidies, drop the high tarrifs on foreign produce and get competitive in the global market. I bet we can cheaply import a lot of products like corn instead of paying locally for higher corn prices.
Oh, and the reason why corn prices sometimes go down is that the government subsidizes it. Remember to equate "subsidy" with "just increase my taxes again, thank you!".
And what about the steel industry? Yessiree, bub! We're subsidizing it, too! Our local steel industries use antiquated technology that they can't compete with foreign steel manufacturers interms of output and quality. So what does the government do? Uncle Sam cuddles the local industry with subsidies at the expense of taxpayer's dollars. We're actually paying for our own industries' inefficiencies.
It's so pathetic that our local industries can't justly compete with the foreign markets. We are blindsided by the fact that we think that our economy is strong when in fact it is built upon a rickety system of subsidies and blatant protectionism.
If only our government will open up the markets to the world, perhaps we can truthfully see where the US economy lies in the global commerce. Perhaps then we can be more patriotic in promoting our local products and justly compete in the global market without thinking twice that we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
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