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- * About Images *
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- * Document For The Schlachtschiff+ Bismarck Collection *
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- * All Work Copyrighted By Jan Van Overbeke, 3-DEE *
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- ABOUT SOURCE OBJECTS
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- Before we start, I want you to know what mountains I moved. The entire ship
- consist of some 130,668 polygons, and was rendered on a 10Mb A3000 (with
- Motorola 68030 and 68882).
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- The first collection allready impressed people by the stunning complexity of
- my own-made object. For some reason, I was not able to have nice sky, and I
- had to render the ship in three different parts. I linked the images together
- with a painting-program called "TVPaint Junior".
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- Now I'm back with a vengeance :) No cheating, no painting, just pure raw
- 3D-rendered art!
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- The image "BISMARCK_3.JPEG" took some 50 hours to render. "BISMARCK_4.JPEG"
- took some 45 hours to render. "BISMARCK_5.JPEG" is a set of four images.
- These were all 'scanlined', which means that the computer does not have to
- trace the reflectives on the water. It took some xx hours for all the four of
- them.
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- As you see, this work deserves some respect, like programmers get. If you
- want to give this respect, please stick to the Freeware rules I set up.
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- ABOUT SWASTIKA
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- Why did I show the Swastika? Because we CAN NOT forget what these seamen
- fought and died for.
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- 2000 on Bismarck - 114 survivors
- 1400 on Hood - 3 survivors
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- Please, don't come bothering me about neo-nazism. I DO know something like
- honour.
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- TO BE HONEST
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- Although I didn't allow myself to make any mistakes, there's something you
- should know:
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- Although I wanted to modell the Bismarck very detailed without worying about
- computer-generated results, I had to skip some things. The fences are one of
- those. Those fences would seriously disturb my images, so I just left them
- out. I left out the wires between the masts for the same reason.
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- Second, I must admit I was too louzy to modell the parts underneath the sea.
- The rudders (2) and the screws (3) that is. But the sea is a beautifull
- alternative.
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- Third: No chains for the anchor. Although I attempted to include them, they
- reached about 50,000 triangles. I allready pushed my computer to her maximum
- without those chains.
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- You should also know, that I use the "raytracing"-technique to visualize
- things out of the real world, and represent them as realistic as possible.
- The advantage is colors: the ship looks better in my images then she did in
- 1941. Disadvantage is: shapes. Although you can get some pretty good results,
- objects will NEVER look like its original. If I would zoom in extremely into
- this ship, you would notice that very well.
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- But I don't think you would be angry for that, or would you? =:*]
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- ABOUT ENTIRE SHIP
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- The Bismarck you're seeing in the images, is the one you would have seen from
- the 18th to the 20th of may 1941.
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- Those days, Bismarck was on a manoeuvre called "Operation Rheinübung".
- Bismarck had to pass the strait of Danmark, where the ship would have been
- visible from the land for quite a long time. Bismarck was accompanied by
- Prinz Eugen and a few German destroyers. The camouflage like in the images,
- was meant to fool eye-witnesses.
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- After Bismarck and Prinz Eugen left Grimmstadtfjord near Bergen the 21st of
- may 1941, the black&white stripes were painted over, the fake bows remained.
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- SEA
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- Although Bismarck operated on the Atlantic Ocean, the sea in the images don't
- look like the Atlantic Ocean. This sea looks like the one of Jamaica, or like
- a swimming pool.
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- Nevertheless, enjoy this nice effect of water.
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- THE END
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- Jan Van Overbeke.
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