Member : bill
| Title |
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Philidor |
| Name |
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Bill Pragnell |
| Country |
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United Kingdom |
| Email |
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| Webpage |
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http://www.infradead.org/~wmp/ |
| Topic |
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Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership (November) |
| Copyright |
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Agreed - 2008-11-20 23:43:13 |
| JPG file |
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pw-1227224593-philidor.jpg |
| Renderer Used |
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POV-Ray 3.6.1 |
| Tools used |
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Inkscape (lathe splines), GIMP (sig & scaling) |
| Render Time |
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~37 hours |
| Hardware Used |
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2.3GHz AMD, 2GB RAM |
Image description
I stood on the baking arid plain and looked up at the towering forms that littered it, long-abandoned relics with a long-forgotten purpose. The only sounds were the distant cries of startled birds, wheeling in the sky hundreds of metres above me. In the hazy distance I could see the verdant mountains that surrounded the plain, fertile walls corralling the barren field like a negative oasis...
Description of how this image was created
The chessmen are meshes, based on lathe objects and weathered using my own macros. The mountains are a single isosurface, using a ridged_mf() combined with a sloped square step and some granite for added texture. Trees on the mountains are simple meshes placed with trace(). The floor is a single small rocky mesh, randomly scaled and copied 10,000 times. The birds are simple CSG and the clouds a turbulent bozo, two layers of ground fog and a partridge in a pear tree. :-)
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General statistics
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18 |
| Min. overall rating |
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6
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50
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| Sum of rating |
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653 / 1080 |
| Date uploaded |
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2008-11-20 23:43:13 |
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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).
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Comments by members when rating this image
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31-12-2008
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You should have put one or two pieces out of the fog, or tuned the contrast as it misses a bit of depth calibration-wise. The camera angle however gives the scene a lot of depth.
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31-12-2008
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Beautiful image and for me, totally believable that the pieces are there and real. You do feel like you're walking amongst them. Top rated for artistic.
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21-11-2008
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Pretty shot. The fog seems a bit unnatural though, being either too strong in the foreground or too weak near the mountains
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19-12-2008
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Simple looking image but not bad.
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