It's late and nowhere to go

Member : Johncc

Image description
A pawn on a unfamiliar battle ground - somewhat like a soldier in an unknown country - loneliness... (In fact not entirely correct - hexagonal chess seem to have been quite popular once, and a variety rules exists for different board sizes. A very interesting page on the subject is http://www.chessvariants.com/hexagonal.dir/hexagonal.html. As on all these boards, an odd number of side squares exist, they all have three bishops. One variant even permits 6 players)

Description of how this image was created
Kpovmodeler was only used for the chess pieces (only the pawn is used in this images). The surface of revolution in version 1.0.0 behaves quite quirky. I'll install 1.1 later, after I install the necessary KDE libs. Of the rest, the algorithm to draw the mesh on the board (as usual, the devil is in the details!) took quite a few neurons. Finally GIMP was only used to add the name.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	18
Min. overall rating	:	18 (5 / 7 / 6)
Max. overall rating	:	49 (15 / 17 / 17)
Sum of rating	:	614 / 1080
Date uploaded	:	2008-12-12 17:50:53

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	:	5 : 20 : 208 : 360
Concept	:	5 : 20 : 199 : 360
Technical	:	5 : 20 : 207 : 360
Overall	:	18 : 60 : 614 : 1080

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   30-12-2008 No need of many elements to achieve something pleasant. I like it as much as your other shot. 2.   19-12-2008 I like this one better than the other image. 3.   18-12-2008 The focal blur is a bit overdone, for my taste 4.   12-12-2008 Very beautiful in its simplicity; there's only one thing missing: Blurry reflections! (use an extremely scaled-down bump normal, and the focal blur oversampling will take care of the rest); the pawn's head lets the picture down a bit; squished as it is, it gives the impression of an aspect ratio problem (camera up/right vs. output resolution); I think the shot would benefit from a 16:9 view (same width, less height)