TITLE: Newton, physicist and mathematician NAME: Peter Murray COUNTRY: England EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ TOPIC: Physics & Math COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pdmnewtn.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 Macintosh 68K TOOLS USED: DeskDraw (2D working drawings) RENDER TIME: 1 hours 25 minutes 24.0 seconds (5124 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh Centris 650 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A future museum with token objects representing aspects of Newton's career. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: A biography of Isaac Newton on the History channel came along at the right time; the discoverer of gravity, the inventor of calculus, the discoverer of the laws of motion, the discoverer that white light is composed of separate colours; a perfect subject. I'd already had a mental image of a circular room, and I built that from Bezier patches (sketched out in a 2D program) to use as a futuristic museum setting. The so-called Newton's cradle represents the laws of motion. It was fun to make, and pleasantly straightforward to do. The Earth-Moon system, illustrating gravity, took a bit longer. I know there are image maps around which could have been used, but I'm in an anti-imagemap phase :-) . The "Earth" looked better at the smaller resolutions than it does at this size. Maybe it's the planet the museum's on :-) . The prism represents the colours that make up white light. I know POV can't split light, but I spent a while fiddling trying to fake it without needing to edit together three or more renderings. As you can see, I didn't manage it. I gave up on trying to get a recognisable face object by the deadline, and used an imagemap, despite hoping to avoid doing that. (The picture came from a website whose URL I've mislaid - oops... I found it via AltaVista.) Umm, my excuse there is that a portrait from the 17th century must now be out of copyright.