Hall of fame: After the cataclysm, 3rd of October 2015.

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea.

The aim of the project >> After the cataclysm was to catch the morning "sea" light. And I think I mostly made it (above and below).

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea.

For this update, I "recalculated" (re-rendered) the images using the new implementation of radiosity in PovRay 3.7 version - it works well and quickly, although I noticed small artifacts / "stains" in the light field. Not terrible, though.

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea. Book. Coffee.

I was working on the project when my book >> Problem promatrača ("Problem of the observer") was just about to be published - that is the meaning of the book next to the coffee cups on the table (above and below). The version of the cover on the image above was made by the publisher on the basis of my proposal shown below.

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea. Book. Coffee.

The scene was called "After the cataclysm" because it seemed to me that it's how the world would look like after the atomic war, say. Beautiful, and yet cold and inhuman. It is morning, cups with coffee are there, they are even still smoking (above and below), but people are noticeably absent. See and sky are blue and beautiful as they always were, with or without people. After the cataclysm.

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea. Book. Coffee.

Architecturally, the scene is a fiction - the window is just a little above the sea surface, so that the house would be sunk by the smallest wind. Of course, architectural correctness was not the aim of this experiment.

Table and chairs in front of a window. View of the sea. Book. Coffee.

I also made a night version of the scene, lit by the artificial light sources, by the three light bulbs by the window (below). Where there were see and sky, there is now just a reflection of the desert interior of the building. Coffee is long cold. A night after the cataclysm.

Table and chairs in front of a window. Night.

There was some interesting work to do, e.g. the definition of smoke as the medium which scatters light, and I also did a little bit of 3D modeling. A model of a chair I made in Wings3D modeler is shown below.

Wings3D model of a chair

I also modeled a cup (below), although the cup would be also easy to make using CSG (constructive solid geometry) technique in PovRay - if someone's interested in that >> HERE one can get a quick intro to technique (fourth lecture from the series of lectures I held in Ljubljana in May 2013).

Wings3D model of a cup

CSG technique was used to make the fountain pen (below) - the most complicated piece is of course the tip of the pen, the rest is simply cylinders (cylinder) and cones (cone). The rock is not an >> isosurface but a heightfield object. In case somebody's interested ...

Fountain pen. CSG.
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