Piccies

Lbrks
Just an abstractly arranged collection of everyone's favorite building toy. There is at least one include file out there for doing this sort of thing, but it seemed too complicated, so I just wrote this from scratch. I guessed the height ratio and pip size and adjusted them until it looked good.

Flybydes
Some small space-going pods (geodesic spheres, actually) approach an earthlike planet. The camera looks out from inside one of the spheres. I haven't decided if I like this picture yet: I'm certainly not able to make a realistic-looking planet.

Oldpic2
This PovRay image is actually inspired by a demo scene file that came with Opticks. A cartoon image (created by hand) was added and tucked under the mirrored sphere.

Dumb1
This is one of my earlier PovRay images, when I was still adjusting from the DKB Render language over to the incompatiable PovRay language. I thought it would be interesting to include a copy of the render inside the actual render: so in the foreground, real small, is a partially constructed copy of the render, including miniature hexagonal tiles.

Krazk
This one is hard to describe: it uses three different image maps, one of which was provided by BayLeaf aka DJ SOB, and some CSG work. This picture features an unusual floor idea: the union of planes twists up. The texture on the spheres combines a dpaint image with a bozo texture.

Twilcon
Another collection of objects, this time under a night sky and with four light sources, each a different color. Sometimes coloring the lights is more interesting than coloring the objects.

Jolt_color
Ooooh, look, another 4d fractal. I have found a use for these things: when I have designed a cool background but can't think of a foreground object to put in, I just pop in a 4d fractal. Instant satisfying visual complexity. This picture was inspired by a color scheme on my co-worker's screen backdrop, a color somewhere between purple and dark magenta. A small blue light positioned off-camera is used to get a blue highlight on of the fractal.

Mhntd
I've been playing with media in pov-ray: the teliport booth in the middle has a blue glow, created by emiting bluish light and absorbing non-bluish light. Yeah, I know: mirrored spheres are overdone. But they look so cool in this picture.

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