6z4.jpg A Philco 6Z4 vacuum tube by Steve Anger. 6Z4 was modelled with 3D Studio 2.01 and rendered with POV-Ray 2.0. The wood finish on the table is a scan applied both as an image_map and as a bump_map to give it a worn appearance.
animal1.jpg An indescribable creature
animal2.jpg A strange creature resembling a jellyfish
balls.jpg Series of coloured balls
bath.jpg A 800x600 image file of a bathroom counter top with items on it. Source for this file is available in /source/scenes/pov2.
beauty.jpg An image done especially for this CD-ROM.
behaim.jpg Globe by Martin Behaim, 1492 A reconstruction of the earliest known terrestrial globe, made in 1492 by Martin Behaim, and made obsolete by Columbus within a year. Two mirrors make the entire surface visible. A .GIF comment describes the provenance of the image. -- Bob Schadewald.
bell_jar.jpg DNA Under Glass This scene was rendered by Eric G. Suchanek, Ph.D. using POV-Ray 2.2 on a Silicon Graphics Crimson computer. The image took approximately 2 hours to render, and represents a double-stranded piece of DNA under a crystal bell jar. The molecular geometry for this image was created by my program pdb2pov, which is capable of converting Brookhaven Protein Databank files to POV-Ray V2.x scene files. Eric G. Suchanek, Ph.D. esuchanek@acm.org See also /programs/povutil/convert/pdb2pov.lha
bizz00.jpg Sunrise on Mercury
bizz02.jpg Temple of the beloved POV-Ray sphere See also /source/scenes/pov2/bizz02.zip
bizz03.jpg Ray tracers little helpers See also /source/scenes/pov2/bizz03.zip
bluballs.jpg A series of spheres arranged in a triangle
brass.jpg A superb brass Morse Code key Brass and chrome morse code key. Modelled with 3D Studio and rendered with POV-Ray via 3ds2pov. Ran out of memory after reaching 25,000 triangles and had to resort to using bump maps for the threads and bolt heads. Turned out pretty well none the less. Steve Anger. Hall of Fame Winner - March 1993
cabnlp.jpg Boat cabin oil lamp made of polished brass Boat Cabin Oil Lamp made of polished brass, with a cardan joint, placed on a cherrywood desk.
cans.jpg Soup cans.
car.jpg Daytime and night scene of a parked car
cathedra.jpg Cathedrals Of Our Own. I started this scene last summer after I heard _Chant_ (the CD of Gregorian chants by the Benedictine monks). It was originally going to be the courtyard of a sandstone monastery with some sort of fountain. About when I got to the columns that were to support a promenade, I started playing the what-if-I-change-just-a-little game. This is the result. It took 63 hours to render at 1024x768 with antialiasing on a Sparc 1000 -- it took up somewhere around 26M of memory once everything was loaded in. The quote around the ring, in full, is "And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own" -- it's from "Summer, Highland Falls" by Billy Joel.
catw.jpg A catwalk around a vat of molten metal
ccube.jpg Metallic cube with circuits on it on superb 'brick' floor. This image has one of the best 'brick' surfaces I've seen in POV-Ray. By Kari Kivisalo. See also /source/scenes/pov2/ccube.zip
cdback.jpg One of the images on the back cover of this CD. By M Kaustinen.
cerule.jpg Silence Cerulean SILENCE CERULEAN - Moonrise bathes the cliffs and the tranquil sea in deep blue silence. The mountain was done with FRACTINT, the scene traced with POV-Ray. Converted from tga to gif using PICLAB.
claw.jpg A claw.
clck50.jpg Desktop clock from the 50's, placed on a cherrywood desk.
clock.jpg A modern clock on a table
clock1.jpg A golden clock surrounded by a ring of reflective spheres
cokecans.jpg This is a scene with a pair of Coke cans on a counter. "Counter Cans" by Kevin Thibedeau (thibedek@wpi.edu). This is a scene with a pair of Coke cans on a counter with some other eye candy around them. One of them has spilled some of its contents. It is a very nice picture and I am very proud of the detail that I got into the can model. I spent a lot of time cleaning up the image map that I made by scanning a real Coke can (It's not easy to cut one of those apart ;-).) I made the image maps for the wallpaper and the straw in Neopaint. The image is at 800x720 resolution. It took about four days to render on a DEC 5000 (while eating up precious resources that the seniors needed to complete their projects ;-( .)
colour_c.jpg A cube deliniated by spheres
colsec.jpg Columbus's Secret Navigation Aid How did Columbus find his way across uncharted seas? His secret navigation aid, discovered on the island of Loof Lirpa, is the centerpiece of a new display at the Museum of Virtual Artifacts. A GIF comment gives details. Bob Schadewald
cork.jpg A object made up of spheres
cosmic.jpg Cosmic Go-Go Girls ..and now...for your viewing pleasure...freshly transported from a distant corner of the galaxy...we are proud to present...the COSMIC GO-GO GIRLS!! (keep your hands to yourselves boys...) Modeled in MORAY, rendered with POV-Ray using all primitives and procedural textures. by Robert A. Mickelsen. copyright 1994
creep.jpg A creepy face See also /source/scenes/pov2/creep.zip
cu_ag_au.jpg A multi-coloured bracelet
dais7.jpg Scene of gothic dais occupied by large spiders. See also /source/scenes/pov2/dais7.pov
dali2.jpg In Memoriam Salvador Dali.
danf_01.jpg Montage of Dan's images #1.
danf_02.jpg Montage #2.
danf_03.jpg Montage #3.
danf_04.jpg Montage #4.
dfwood.jpg A simple wooden block showing excellent wooden texture
diceball.jpg A set of dice sitting next to coloured balls
dicedot.jpg An image made up of coloured spheres
dome.jpg The interior of a domed building
dominos.jpg Two rows of dominos This picture was created with the domino objects found in the domset.inc file, and the scene in domscene.pov. It's meant to just be a demonstration of the domset.inc objects. Resolution: 800x600.
dr800600.jpg 800x600 image of my dining room, complete with furniture. This image, in which all the objects are hand-typed, CSG shapes containing no patch primitives, shows a detailed representation of my dining room. The light fixture at the top of the image has 5 point light sources in it, with the entire object having a no_shadow option attached to it. Two other point light sources also light the scene; one represents the sun, and casts light onto one wall, and the other illuminates sections of some objects closest to the camera. The objects in the scene all render very fast and efficiently if placed in a less complex scene with fewer light sources. This image, however, rendered at -q9 and +a0.01 (which means almost every pixel gets supersampled) took about 200 hours (over one week!) to complete on a Sun Sparc10 running SunOS 4.1.3. If you choose to render it yourself, you'll want to start with a smaller image, a lower quality setting, and less anti-aliasing.
eraser.jpg An eraser
fbn.jpg "Fly by Night" 800 X 600 X 24-BIT "Moonrise/Thoughtful eyes/Staring back at me/Fromthe window beside" was the inspiration for this image of a face reflected in a airliner window looking out over a night landscape. Modeled in MORAY. Rendered in POV-Ray.
fighter.jpg A fighter.
flight.jpg 3 jet flighters in mid flight
flyrod4.jpg Another example of Dan Farmers flyrod series See also /source/artists/danf/flyrods/flyrods.zip
fracset.jpg A 3D fractal (quaternian Julia) that sits on a pedestal See also /images/gif/fracset.gif, /source/scenes/pov2/fracset.zip, /programs/povray/patches/julia_3.zip
fs_flyby.jpg Two sleek landing craft hovering over a rippling lake. Set in an alien landscape, the lake is surrounded by lush flowers and flying insects. Terraced hills rise in the distance. See also /source/scenes/pov2/fs_flyby.zip
geodome.jpg Andy Wardley's GEODOME image. This image won Image of the Month at the ftp.uwa.edu.au POV-Ray site. See also /programs/povutil/code_gen/geodome1.zip
geodome1.jpg Icosahedron dome This frequency-six sphere is based on an icosahedron. It is composed of hubs (spheres), struts (cylinders) and triangles (sub-divided and concave). Resolution: 800x600.
geodome2.jpg Dodecahedron dome (Freq. 5) This frequency-five sphere is based on a dodecahedron. It shows what can happen if you render convex sub- divided triangles over a mesh of hubs and struts. Pretty hard on the eyes! After I rendered this picture, I found that I had left out one important element (one of the central hubs). Resolution: 800x600.
geodome3.jpg Part of a dodecahedron dome (Freq. 5) This frequency-five sphere based on a dodecahedron shows just a section of the dome in geodome2.jpg. Resolution: 800x600.
geodome4.jpg Dodecahedron dome (Freq. 10) This frequency-ten sphere is based on a dodecahedron. It is composed entirely of smaller spheres, distributed around its exterior. This was one of my earlier dome renderings, and is based on code which wasn't entirely correct in its placement of the geodesic points. However, with dodecahedron domes, this isn't too evident. Resolution: 800x600.
geodomex.jpg A test image of a geodome. GeodomeX.jpg is a test image I rendered on my way to developing code which generates coordinates for any size or frequency of geodesic dome/sphere. This code will also make it easy to generate several different kinds of objects making up the dome - triangular faces, hubs, struts, blobs, etc...
golf.jpg 3 Golf balls on tees 3 golf balls on red tees. The golf ball object may be extracted and used as a seperate object. It may have some flaws if not viewed from the proper angle though. See also /source/scenes/pov2/golf.zip
groundfg.jpg groundfog.jpg demonstrates a variable fog density feature The patch adds a new keyword distance to fog statement. I have been told that the patch does not work on PC's (overflow/underflow errors). It has worked fine on HP705 with HP-UX 9.01. See also /programs/povray/patches/groundfg.zip
hallween.jpg A picture of a Jackolantern sitting on the porch of a house. This was entirely within POV-Ray using text based modelling and a few pieces of graph paper. Most of the initial work was done on a Macintosh while the final render was done on a network of Silicon Graphics Computers. This image took about four - five days (and nights)...
haveseat.jpg A room with table and chairs Scene called "Have a seat." This is a picture of a room with a glass table and two chairs. I was about to place an ashtray on the table, but I don't smoke. B-). See also /source/scenes/pov2/haveseat.zip
hifi.jpg Hifi Room
hwgd.jpg A space scene.
hypno.jpg A strange object made up of twirls and swirls
infinite.jpg Infinitely repeating room An infinitely repeating room. Lots of reflective surfaces and *LOTS* of light sources. May take months to render on even the fastest machines!! It may take a 386 over a year???? 1280x1024 JPEG See also /source/scenes/pov2/infinite.pov
infinito.jpg An infinite array of intersecting rods
innrpool.jpg A rendering of a pool inside of a temple with plants growing in it.
kdst1a.jpg A lego helicopter See also /source/scenes/pov2/kdstf1.zip
kkteaset.jpg A reflective teaset on a superb tiled surface See also /source/scenes/pov2/kkteaset.zip
kora1.jpg Inhale the Silence (Merunari River Gorge) LANDSCAPE (The second image in the planet Kora series, best viewed at low brightness in the dark.) The Merunari River is a tired serpent, lapping its way through a midnight canyon gorge. Above is an unparalleled view of the Emerald Planet at its closest approach, its light side radiant enough to outshine all but the boldest stars. Listen... can you hear the silence echo? Russell Leidich Editors note : Not done with POV but so good (IMHO) that it's worth imcluding. The actual tool used was a 4k landscape raytracer written in assembler !
ktvirham.jpg A Virtual Reality Hammer (with other bits). This is a scene that contains a high tech "virtual hammer" with its accompanying VR (forgive the blatent use of that buzzword) helmet, the cable that connects the hammer to the helmet, and plasma nails. The entire scene was hand coded except for the cable which I made with a little help from Moray. The image maps were drawn with NeoPaint. Kevin Thibedeau <thibedek@wpi.edu>
leopard.jpg A Leopard walking towards the horizon. This is an image of a leopard walking back towards the horizon with the sun setting over some mountains. The leopard is a file i downloaded from somewhere, and unfortunately I dont have the authors' names, so I can't give them credit.
mandel.jpg A Mandelbrot set made up of spheres
marlin.jpg Flying fish take to the air This image is seen from a viewpoint that is half above the surface of the water and half below. Above the surface, three flying fish take to the air to escape the hungry predator lurking just below. All fish were modeled in MORAY using bezier patches. The marlin alone is made of 20! The ocean surface is a height field from a POT file generated by FRANCTINT. Copyright 1994 by Robert A. Mickelsen
math.jpg Scene with a pen, math book, and abacus. Very nice !
mir_room.jpg An image of a mirrored room.
mktools.jpg A Writer's tools. I decided to go the non-traditional route with this "tools" topic. I thought about wrenches, hammer, etc, but I wanted something a little more original. That's when I came up with the thought of rendering a scene with a writer's "tools" in it. I would have liked to add more to this, but I just didn't have the time. So all there is in this image is a bottle of white-out, paper, a pen, and a thesarus. I concentrated mainly on the white-out in the beginning, and the test images I have with the bottle up really close turned out really well, I think. The book also looks realistic, IMO.
mons.jpg A futuristic jet fighter flies over Mars
moonltr.jpg A moonlight letter. This is my second picture using POVray 2.2. It has evolved greatly over the past few months to where it is now. Some of the objects, the pen, the ink bottle, the paper, the candle holder, and the boat, were modeled in MORAY.
mundo_i.jpg The moon rises over calm water
museum.jpg A superb rendering of a room in a museum. See also /source/scenes/pov2/museum.zip
museum2.jpg A Museum interior, modelled especially for this CD-ROM.
myplace1.jpg Model of a childs bedroom as seen from outside
pcktwtch.jpg A pocketwatch
pclock.jpg A rotating pendulum clock. Rendered with POV-Ray A rotating pendulum clock on a bookshelf. Modelled with 3D Studio 2.01 and rendered with POV-Ray 2.0. 3D Stuio to POV-Ray conversion with 3DS2POV v1.8. Credits: The 3D model of the book and the image maps fo the book and the wallpaper were from the 3D Studio World- Creating Toolkit CD-ROM. Steve Anger. Hall of Fame Winner - December 1993.
piano5gc.jpg A grand piano keyboard, with a silver treble clef. The mesh was created in 3d Studio by measuring the dimensions of one of my keyboards, the rest was improvised. The 3ds file and animation was converted to POV format using 3ds2pov and rendered on 2 486/66 machines over a couple of days.
pillars.jpg A picture of pillars in water with a snowy mountain in background. The pillars and reflection were done using POV-Ray and the background scenery was done using KPT Bryce from HSC Software. The image was composited using Adobe Photoshop. Most work was done on a Macintosh while the final rendering for the pillars was done on a network of Silicon Graphics Computers. The image took two days to complete....
pool.jpg The Earth as a poolball on a pool table.
pooltb.jpg A pooltable (complete with pool) See also /source/scenes/pov2/poolfi.zip
portrait.jpg A picture of Eithne N Bhraonain (better known as Enya). A picture or Enya with a tray of red glass flowers. It took 36 (!) days to render on a Sun Sparc IPC, probably because of the petals on the flowers... Anyway. 640x480x16M JPEG. Postprocessing was done with the NetPBM utilities and Adobe Photoshop. Yes, there are a few bugs in the scene.
poster.jpg The image that is on the large poster available with the CDROM.
raindrop.jpg The Earth as a raindrop.
reflhome.jpg 'Reflections of Home' - interesting image of the earth. This was my first image created with POVRAY 2.2. The image map for the Earth was FTP'd from NASA's AMES Research Center. The moon image map was scanned off a postcard using a Logitech 256 hand scanner. The background image was taken from the Pheonix CD shareware collection.
ringbox.jpg A glass box and torii floating over a solar/plasma cloud.
roman.jpg A set of Roman columns See also /programs/ibmpc/scenes/level3/roman.pov
romcover.jpg Original scene for the cover of the CDROM. This scene was originally intended for use on the cover of the CDROM, but in the end we didn't use it. It looks pretty good, anyhow, in my ever so humble opinion (;-).
s6c2.jpg Spacecraft floating over desert scene See also /source/scenes/pov2/s6c2.pov
satel1.jpg A small satellite orbiting mars. See also /source/scenes/pov2/sateldat.zip
sge.jpg Schadewald Gravity Engine The Schadewald Gravity Engine is a perpetual motion machine whose design I assigned to the public domain in the April 1978 SCIENCE DIGEST. The scene shows a working model on display in the Museum of Nonexistent Artifacts. A GIF comment contains the complete text of the SCIENCE DIGEST article. Bob Schadewald. Hall of Fame Winner - December 1993.
sgi.jpg The SGI logo.
shapes.jpg Example of all of POV-Ray's standard primitives See also /programs/ibmpc/include/shapes.inc
shellexp.jpg An exposition of shells... Each shell is composed of 250 little spheres. I've used stones textures from the standard distribution. This image is rendered using an Amiga 4000 with 68030/68882 and 8 MB of ram, it takes 20 hours to be rendered...
shiped1.jpg A spacecraft viewed from the side.
shiped2.jpg A spacecraft viewed from the rear.
shiped3.jpg A view of a spacecraft.
shroiq.jpg A colourful indescribable and very surreal scene
shuttle.jpg A futuristic shuttlecraft.
slab.jpg A stone slab with the Walnut Creek wizard on it. This is a zoomed-in view of the slab in romcover.jpg.
soup.jpg A set of soup cans
spasta2.jpg This is a space station.
spikbush.jpg A spikey object
stack.jpg Hifi Room
stone1.jpg Example of POV-Ray's stone textures 1
stone2.jpg Example of POV-Ray's stone textures 2
stone3.jpg Example of POV-Ray's stone textures 3
stone4.jpg Example of POV-Ray's stone textures 4
studying.jpg Studying Fractals - a photorealistic image. This image utilises the fractal patch found elsewhere on this CDROM to create a scene containing several 3D fractals. This image was a Hall of Fame winner at the ftp.uwa.edu.au official POV-Ray site. See also /programs/povray/patches/julia_3.zip
tangle1.jpg A colourful tangle of strands of spheres.
teatim.jpg Tea Time Table Scene. I guess you could call this my personal masterpiece. It isn't really complicated, but it's a decent raytrace I made of a very souped-up version of my contemporary-style dining room. There are some BEAUTIFUL marble textures in here, all of which I did not make, so take a look. Created using POV-Ray 2.0 and MORAY.
texture1.jpg An example of POV-Ray textures 1 See also /programs/ibmpc/demo/texture1.pov
texture2.jpg An example of POV-Ray textures 2 See also /programs/ibmpc/demo/texture2.pov
torland.jpg A self-similar object
torloid8.jpg A close up of a self similar object
treegrow.jpg Demo image from tree-growing program treegrow.c. See also /programs/povutil/code_gen/treegrow.c
tvroom.jpg An image of a TV room (640x480x24bit) This is my TV room that I've worked on and off for about two years now. The perspective is from the couch. A side note, the scene took 31 hours to render with antialias at .2
ufo.jpg Image of a UFO in space
ussday.jpg United Solar Systems Recreation Center.
ussnight.jpg United Solar Systems Recreation Center at night. Gamma 2.4.
vbath.jpg This is a picture of a very clean bathroom (read shiny). It was done entirely with POV-Ray using text based modelling and a piece of graph paper :-). I did most of the work on a Macintosh and then did the final render on a network of Silicon Graphic Computers. Total time spent was probably three and one half days...
view.jpg View from a window over a sunlit sea
wirewave.jpg A terrain made up of wires
worldbig.jpg A roman-style temple.
worm1.jpg A worm like object
worm2.jpg Another worm like object
worm4.jpg A third worm like object
writin.jpg A writing desk with a fountain pen. [Editor favorite !] See also /source/scenes/pov2/writin.zip
wu_li.jpg A time space clock showing POV-Ray axes See also /source/scenes/pov2/wuli.zip
xroad3.jpg Crossroads at Dawn, #3 A colonnaded road vanishes into the mists of dawn ... This image uses the same camera as "Crossroads at Dawn, #2," but it as been post-processed to remove the "keystoning" effect of perspecitve and make the columns parallel on the image plane. -- Bob Schadewald. Hall of Fame Honorable Mention - June 1994
