EMAIL: famrom@ran.es NAME: Guillermo Sanz Romero TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa TOOLS USED: DOS Edit and Micrografx Picture Publisher 5.0 RENDER TIME: 6h 19m 42s HARDWARE USED: PC i486DX2-66Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Systems ready, proceeding with tonight's patrol." This represents the take off of police aerocars at sunset in a XXI century city. Some buildings, people (visible as small dots in the ground) and an advertisment form the rest of the scene. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Some weeks ago Blade Runner was broadcasted where I live. Then I decided that a scene based on Blade Runner city will be fun and interesting. I started creating some buildings, but mine are more normal than the BR mega arquitecture. My buildings look smaller and more factible than those "a city inside one building" typical of many SF pictures. The advertisment is a .gif that I found in the Ukiyo-e museum, if you want more photos or info try this (Do you remember the BR's scene where you can see a lot of ads, even an advertising zeppelin?) Maybe I should have put more ads in other buildings. ;) Then I go for the ship, I wanted one with some lights but not with blasting jets, cos it's suposed to land on buildings and maybe even on wide streets. I mixed the Blade Runner police car with Cyberpunk 2020 AV ships (CP2020 is a role playing game about ... guess! ;) ). In other words a ship with vertical take off and landing capabilities, due to is directed thrust engines (fireless turbofans, like helicopter's rotor inside a tube). The final touches where adding some crowd and the light effects (atmosphere for the ship's spotlights and halos for the sirens). The text was added and the image converted with PP5. If do you want more info visit or (the Spanish link is empty now, I hope to write the html as soon as possible) or better write to . ;) ============================================================================== Comments get from IRTC comments page: ===== Very nice job ===== A little dull. ===== Interesting idea. I like the lighting (especially the ships' spots), and the big japanese art adds a nice touch. ===== At first I thought those slightly brighter points showing up best on the city floor were raindrops, but eventually figured out that they were ONLY on the floor, thus must be peoples. ===== Very bladerunnerish. ===== I Love the lighting in this one. I think the city needs a little more detail in this picture though. Maybe if the streets had a little more detail or you could see a person on a balcony on one of the larger buildings or something. ===== Nice atmospherics. Pretty good buildings, but the lights are too regular. Howabout using rand() and a ternary operator (?:) to turn the lights on/off? ===== I think more randomness on the lights in the buildings would add a lot of realism ===== Very suggestive of Blade Runner--nice effect. Why do the people glow? The large signature was distracting. ===== There may be too much ground space here. How about a few foreground buildings to hide it?