Ray-Tracing Files

POV-Ray can be found at the Official POV-Ray site, povray.org. Another good site to check out is the Ray-Tracing Home Page.

More information as I dredge it up and slap it in here.

Sphere Animation (MPEG - 160k)

A royal pain to trace, but looks cool. First effort in recent memory. I think I did the animation out of stubbornosity. %) This is an MPEG, but it's a very slow, MPEG. You might want to look at the QuickTime movie instead.

Star (GIF - 108k)

Also a royal pain (Hey, glass is annoying, right?) but also very nice to look at. The chances of this becoming animated are slim, unless I can get a machine to do nothing but Ray-tracing on.

Temple (JPEG - 59k)

Ok, so the gemetric shapes are fun and everything, but I figured I should try for something with some degree of realism in it... And Greek-like architecture is EASY.

Cathedral? (JPEG - 68k)

So, here I was one night, bored, having just decided I'd done all I could on the Greek temple above, and made the mistake of asking Iago what I should do next, and he suggested I do Lucifer's Cathedral for the Pandemonium home page. It's not done yet, but I'm getting there.

Cathedral Inside (JPEG - 71k)

The nifty thing about Ray-Tracing, is that with a simple camera redefinition, you can get the inside scoop, as it were. This image took forever to trace, with the smoothing (anti-aliasing) turned on. Refractions take forever to calculate. %)

Random Submersible (JPEG - 29k)

Recently, I finally broke down and downloaded POV-Ray 3.0; MANY improvements over 2.2. So, of course, I had to practice. This is a VERY incomplete image, but I thought I'd throw it up for now. Eventually, I'll have it underwater, with a more detailed cockpit, a more streamlined hatchway, and some lights. Sweeps have waaaay too many triangles. :)

StoneHenge Preliminary

This is a work in progress; I've got a much more detailed drawing on my home machine that I'm working on, but I put this here to show a friend.

And of course, this chain was also done with POV-Ray. I decided the old color bars that everyone around here seems to use were boring. Besides, the chain fits in better with the Wolf motif anyway. Well, maybe not... But it sounds good when I say it, so there.