tc-rtc.co.uk : Picture rating system

Member : Stephen

Title	:	O Snail
Name	:	Stephen
Country	:	United Kingdom
Email	:	###############
Webpage	:
Topic	:	Japanese (January)
Copyright	:	Agreed - 2012-01-01 10:02:22
JPG file	:	pw-1325376384-O_Snail.jpg
Renderer Used	:	PovRay 3.7
Tools used	:	PSP PoseRay
Render Time	:	40 Minutes
Hardware Used	:	Toshiba 17 laptop

Image description

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, 1763 – 1827 :

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!

Translated by R.H. Blyth.

Description of how this image was created

Often one image leads to another. In the Sphinx round I used an iso-surface sea which reminded me of a Japanese woodcut so I included a model of Mount Fuji. Which made me think of the Haiku by Issa. This image could be a Nengajo (a Japanese New Year Card).

The Japanese characters were pasted into a text box in Paintshop Pro and used as height_fields. The scene was composed in Bishop3D after importing one of Gilles Tran’s snails using PoseRay. And the body of the snail was textured with a combination of SSLT and absorbing media.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	6
Min. overall rating	:	29 (9 / 11 / 9)
Max. overall rating	:	49 (17 / 16 / 16)
Sum of rating	:	242 / 360
Date uploaded	:	2012-01-01 00:06:24

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

120

Concept

120

Technical

120

Overall

242

360

Comments by members when rating this image

1.	29-02-2012	Very nice :)
2.	22-02-2012	The way you wanted it is seriously perturbed by the automatic box framing of the web page. You could have gone with the "card" look (i.e. frame + slight paper texture), then there is no problem. But plain white background like that? The one-pixel-wide black rectangle quite hurts the effect.

O Snail