POV-ray

Ray Tracing

These pictures were done using POV-Ray. Download it yourself and have some fun.

If you have access to several UNIX machines, you might be interested in distpov, a program for splitting renders across machines.

General Information

Most thumbnails are 128 x 96, 256-colour GIFs; some may be interlaced. The full-size images are mostly 800 x 600, 24-bit colour, JPEG files. Source is available as either a straight POV file or a GNU zipped file (gzip), unless more than one file is needed, in which case zip archives are used.

Quick index (by name)

awfirst

This is the first image I ever sat down and did myself on POV, and it sucks. It's only on here to make the other ones look good. ;-)

Thumbnail: 11254 bytes
Full-size image: 56516 bytes
Source file: 1035 bytes
Compressed source: 461 bytes (gzip)

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blobspool

Another old one, it's a little odd. I was playing around with merging and scaling a little. Some blobs, by a pool.

Thumbnail: 5299 bytes
Full-size image: 44161 bytes
Source file: 2531 bytes
Compressed source: 888 bytes (gzip)

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cuslogo

A logo for use on the UMIST CUS home page. The letters C U S carved in stone.

Thumbnail: 5772 bytes
Full-size image: 18560 bytes
Source file: 2172 bytes
Compressed source: 742 bytes (gzip)

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dplinux

I was asked to do the logo for dplinux and here it is. It's an animated GIF, the frames of which are created by a shell script. You'll need a UNIX clone (or a DOS port of sh) to run the shell script, and you will need an animated GIF construction package to piece together the frames.

Thumbnail: 48819 bytes
Full-size image: 120070 bytes
Source file: 2800 bytes
Compressed source: 1362 bytes (gzip)

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gates

Experiments with ground fog and ripples (not to mention image maps). Gates opening out on to the sea, with a full moon ahead. You will need to get images/fullmoon.gif (155994 bytes) to render this - it is picture of the moon, from the NASA web site.

Thumbnail: 10395 bytes
Full-size image: 44399 bytes
Source file: 2808 bytes
Compressed source: 905 bytes (gzip)

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pageofdoom

I used this as the logo for my pages, until I decided it was too big and too cheesy. It's done by using an image as a material map - you will need to get images/slab.gif (4970 bytes) to render this.

Thumbnail: 6351 bytes
Full-size image: 44919 bytes
Source file: 1260 bytes
Compressed source: 585 bytes (gzip)

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pillars

A fairly standard cliche of an image - lots of marble pillars stretching off into the foggy distance. Nice lighting effects though. Took 10 hours to render on a P133.

Thumbnail: 10172 bytes
Full-size image: 37823 bytes
Source file: 3372 bytes
Compressed source: 1123 bytes (gzip)

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sphog

Foggy spherey things. Look out for the columns of steam spouting from the inner pipe ring of the largest sphere. Also look out for the glitch I just couldn't get rid of, the one that I had to rotate the sphere to cover up...

Thumbnail: 11170 bytes
Full-size image: 66858 bytes
Source file: bytes
Compressed source: 2916 bytes (gzip)

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stigmata

Rather abstract picture (aren't they all!) inspired by a book called The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick. A bell jar on a knobbly mirror plane, displaying the three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Thumbnail: 12058 bytes
Full-size image: 65659 bytes
Compressed source: 9539 bytes (zip)

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eye

The Illuminati eye-in-pyramid symbol. This is not a complete picture, but something I will use in later work - it has been constructed as an object made of wedge-shaped lines and curves, such that it could be subtracted from a block to make an engraving.

Thumbnail: 3928 bytes
Full-size image: 51762 bytes
Compressed source: 3174 bytes (zip)

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Do pop back in occasionally, I might have added something new.

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