The Gnomon

Member : Almalm

Image description
"Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié" - everything old is new again... Technical progress as well as evolution is a cyclic process, and the progress in time measurment has made a full circle and returning to it's origin - using a Sun as a primary instrument. Even if it is a Sun of another World...

Description of how this image was created
All objects except globe were modelled in Rhino and textured in POV-Ray. Globe is a simple sphere with texture created in GIMP. I used "Ennis" HDR from "http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Data/HighResProbes/" for lightning. Also 2-pass radiosity was used (otherwise it took to long to render).

General statistics
No of ratings	:	15
Min. overall rating	:	4 (1 / 2 / 1)
Max. overall rating	:	47 (17 / 16 / 14)
Sum of rating	:	518 / 900
Date uploaded	:	2009-02-10 13:21:31

Specific details Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed. If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).
Rating type	:	Min : Max : Sum : Out of
Artistic	:	1 : 20 : 171 : 300
Concept	:	2 : 20 : 163 : 300
Technical	:	1 : 20 : 184 : 300
Overall	:	4 : 60 : 518 : 900

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   24-02-2009 I keep looking at this image because it intrigues me. I love the 'unproportional' scale between objects. That wolf picture frame looks so real. Good job. 2.   23-02-2009 Interesting and original concept. 3.   23-02-2009 Lighting looks good. Looks like Blade Runner like wall treatment in the back there, 4.   18-02-2009 (The world needs more good free HDR light probes...) Your lighting needs more work: The background image has more depth than your actual scene. Good marble texture, and beautiful glass ball. I don't get the concept though: Current official definition of time is based on radiation of caesium atoms, not distant stars. 5.   17-02-2009 I liked the concept and the image. I couldn't see any technical artefacts, except perhaps there should have been a little more focal blur to blend the foreground perfectly into the hdri image. What I didn't like was the image in the glass sphere. I'm afraid I hated the green and white mountains because they looked too fake. 6.   15-02-2009 Not "everything old is new again", it says "everything that is new has only been forgotten". Nice picture, good realism (all but the sphere content). Topic-wise, we miss the plural here.