EMAIL: s.tessarin@tin.it

NAME: Stefano Tessarin

TOPIC: Future

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Nostradamus Prophecies

COUNTRY: Italy

WEBPAGE: N/A

RENDERER USED: povray 3.5 and MegaPov 1.0

TOOLS USED: PSP,Moray

RENDER TIME: 20 minutes about

HARDWARE USED: Athlon XP 3000+ RAM 512MB



IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
When I saw for the first time the topic of this round I had completely no idea about what to do. Then I saw a picture by Antonello da Messina (xv century italian painter) of St.Jeronimous in his laboratory and I got the inspiration: an old prophet's lab. From here to Nostradamus the step was close. 
The prophecy is a vision about II world war. Since I didn't want to, I had to add a nazi's flag to match the idea, since the other images (bombers, D-Day and atomic bomb) were to hard to understand alone, but I don't want to encourage any act of that evil government. SO IF SOMEONE HAS BEEN OFFENDED BY THIS IMAGE, I'M VERY SORRY.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Everything is csg I realized in POV ray, except for all the lathes I did with Moray.
All the clothes (the tablecloth, the curtains) are done with SimCloth within MegaPov, then their mesh files included in PovRay. All the textures are actual textures taken by my HP digital camera, except for the curtains and the floor, coming from free texture collection both.
The two pages of the open book over the desk are the first two pages of an actual Nostradamus edition of XVII century.
The vision in the crystalball is simply an image_map mapped onto a disk object inside an hollow sphere of the same radius then the sphere.

Sorry for the fast explanation, but I decided to take part of this round only december 24th... so I lacked of time and I hurried to accomplished it!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE RAY TRACING COMMUNITY.