Books
(C) 1995 By Atul Varma
Created using POV-Ray v2.2 for the IBM-PC

ABOUT THIS IMAGE
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	Well, this could be considered a "pulled-up image from a while 
ago" or it could not. I just got done completing this image for an art 
competition to make an image which promoted the study of Latin and Greek. 
I just found out about this competition thing also, so I decided that 
since this image depicted a Doric column with a couple books around it, 
the Doric column would make the image eligible for this contest also. So, 
anyways, I know this thing won't win the contest or anything but it looks 
sort of cool nonetheless.

METHOD OF CREATION
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	I took the "long route" in the making of the column; instead of 
just creating a cylinder at <0, 0, -1> and rotating it about the origin 
for the fluting of the column, I used trig. It was sort of cool, though, 
since this is the first time I've used trig in any kind of real-world 
application. Anyways, the flutes are 30 degrees apart and I used the 
formula (s = r <theta>) / 2 to figure out the radius of each flute.
	The way I made the signs for the book bindings was through a 
material map, of course. It was very, very annoying but eventually I did 
it (this was the first time I've ever used an image/material map with the 
"once" option). Live and learn, eh?
	For the floor surface, I used a 320x200 plasma fractal w/ a high 
granularity as a bump map. The result, I thought, was pretty interesting, 
except for near the bottom of the image where it gets very pixelated. I 
figured it was sort of artistic in a way because it emphasized the fact 
that the image is computer generated. I also used a misaligned bump map 
of the same plasma fractal for the pages of the books (i.e. I aligned it 
on the Y axis, so on the other axes it appeared like the pages of the 
book stacked on each other).

						Atul Varma
						atulv@ganet.net