TITLE: Silver Ghost

JPEG FILE:lbgiauto.jpeg

NAME: Larry Boston

COUNTRY: United States

EMAIL: larryboston@dialmaine.com

WEBPAGE: none

TOPIC: Great Inventions

RENDER USED: POV 3.5

TOOLS USED:
Corel Painter 6, Paint Shop Pro-7, Microsoft Paint,Objpov

RENDER TIME: 14 min

HARDWARE USED:
PENTIUM III 733, 512 RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Several years ago I took a trip to Novia Scotia on the Cat. There were a lot of Rolles Royces
and Bentlys aboard. I didn't see any 1909 Silver Ghosts, but here were some impressive vehicles.
I decided to make the Silver Ghost because I thought it would be easier that some other cars
because of its straight lines, but it wasn't as easy as I thought. I think I will take a more
organized approach in the future to avoid redoing large portions of the major objects.
Since I have been using POV for quite a while I should know better,but I must be a slow learner.
The Auto must be a great invention, since I don't like horse and walking across country doesn't
appeal to me, even though I walked a lot when I was young.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The Silver Ghost was constructed using CSG except for the hood ornament that is a converted poser object
using objPOV. The driver is also converted from Poser to POV using objPOV.

The stone wall texture was created using a POV file using differences between boxes and prisms to cut
out rocks from superellipsoids. The resulting image was used as an image map. MS Paint was used
to cut and paste some of the stones that didn't look good. Corel Painter 6 was used to
convert the TGA files and alter the brightness of the TGA files.

The sky was made to look like a watercolor by applying crand to a nearly transparent sky_sphere inside the
sky_sphere with clouds.

The sidewalk was created using a while loop to translate boxes and vary the color.

The trees were made using Gilles Tran's tree macro.

The small portion of grass in front of the wall was made using LawnMaker from Uwe Gleiss.