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I named a front page of my site after this one. I always really liked this one... it was based off of “Fire Planet” (below), but I changed it around quite a bit. Unfortunately, about 3/4 of the way through rendering it, I lost part of the scene file and had to recreate it; you can see a horizontal line where the cyan light becomes darker, since I wasn’t able to match the color exactly. Someday I’ll rerender it!

Created on January 11, 2001

Bright Tree

A lot of work went into this image. The tree was created in POV-Ray’s Scene Description Language with a recursive macro. The whole point of this scene was to recreate the way I once saw the sunlight shine through the trees and into smoke during a barbecue. The real thing was a lot better. =) Sometimes you can see the same effect in a forest on a cloudy morning.

Created on September 14, 2000

Ocean Sphere

This was the only image I ever created with Mega-POV, a popular unnoficial version of POV-Ray. The ripples were defined as an “isosurface” - an object defined by a mathematical function and approximated during rendering. It makes a nice desktop background.

Created on July 9, 2000

Maze

I originally planned on the maze being a lot bigger and cooler than it is here. Nonetheless, I am happy with this image.

Created on July 8, 2000

Island

800 × 600

I made this image pretty quickly. I may rerender it someday to make it cleaner; POV-Ray sometimes renders height fields strangely, creating the artifacts at the water level in this image.

Creation date unknown

Fire Planet

This image lost a lot when it was compressed to JPEG format, and I’ve since lost the original copy, so you’ll have to forgive the bad quality. I played around with media a lot in this one, and am more or less happy with the way the fire turned out.

Created on February 5, 2000

Metal Planet

I based this image off a sketch I had done. Although the lighting in this version looks better, the sketch had more detail in it. This was my first real experiment with fog being lit up by light.

Creation date unknown

Spheres

This was my first ever complete 3D image.

Created on November 30, 1999

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Padded Cell

This image began in a “POV-Pong” match with POV-Ray 3.5. Halfway through, we decided to work towards submitting it to the IRTC’s still image competition with the theme of “Loneliness.”

Thanks to Corey Woodworth for participating in the match.

Created on August 31, 2002

Many Reflective

I made this image originally in an attempt to find a fast algorithm for randomly placing thousands of spheres without overlapping any. I only partially succeeded. This is the result; I slightly blurred parts in Photoshop to clean up POV-Ray’s focal blur graininess.

Created on April 23, 2002

Real Water

When POV-Ray 3.5 beta first came out, I wanted to create a scene with media photons, and this seemed like the coolest way of experimenting with that. The barely-visible seaweed is made up of sphere sweeps, another POV-Ray 3.5 feature. Due to what I believed were bugs in the beta, I wasn’t able to finish this image until about half a year after I started it. Lots of people think the bubbles are unrealistic.

Created on April 7, 2002

Cubes

At the time I made this image, my friend was working on a fighting game (similar to Street Fighter, etc). I made this as a potential background for that game. Like so many projects, the game has not been completed.

This image is one of my first experiments with POV-Ray 3.5 beta’s new media sampling method; notice how the fog has a much smoother, less grainy appearance than older images.

Created on December 17, 2001

Mountain with Clouds

Upon the realization that POV-Ray’s media feature could create realistic clouds, I began work on this image. I am very happy with the result, although I think the clouds are a little too flat.

Created on July 12, 2001

Free Float

This image is yet another experimentation with media. I’m not particularly proud of this one; I threw it together quickly, and it’s very similar to my older pieces.

Creation date unknown

Pixel Ruler

Don’t bother using this image on anything other than a 1024x768 resolution desktop. It has a “ruler” of pixels - each block is 100 pixels. This was useful from time to time when I needed to measure the width and height of a browser window while designing an HTML page.

Created on March 27, 2001

Orbs

I made this image fairly quickly; I expected it to look a lot prettier than it did. It also came out fairly grainy because of the large amount of media (fog).

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Ridge Spill

The product of a couple of days of boredom. The thumbnail doesn’t do this one justice; take a look at the actual image.

Created on August 14, 2005

Blue Blob

This was a simple test of the POV-Ray 3.7 beta. Almost all of the coloring is from the background, and refraction is used to show the blob shape.

Created on April 25, 2005

Autumn

1280 × 960 1600 × 1200

Autumn was my entry to POVCOMP 2004 and represents three months of work. It was inspired by a scene from the movie Hero. It won 15th place in the contest; for more information and detail images check out the contest entry. Warning: this image is over half a megabyte in size due to the extreme detail.

Created on January 21, 2005

Sphere Cluster

A simple experiment with POV-Ray’s radiosity. The bright background washes out the outer sides of the cluster, but it’s darker inside so you can see into it.

Created on September 15, 2004

Sky Background

1280 × 960

This was originally the background of a separate image which was never completed. I liked the sky enough to render a panoramic view and create a simple desktop background out of it. The clouds are fairly fake looking but it’s a pleasing image nonetheless.

Created on September 10, 2004

Red Spheres

This image was inspired by a similar image posted by somebody else (I forget who at this point) on the POV-Ray newsgroups. The idea was to create a contrast between low and high levels of reflection on the surfaces of the spheres.

Created on March 16, 2004

Space Bowling

1400 × 700

This was another POV-Pong match with Corey Woodworth. It started with a single sphere, and the bowling theme developed very quickly. One side effect of this sort of collaboration is that the final image may very well make no sense at all. Mostly, I like the colors in this one, although it’s a little busy.

Created on May 30, 2003

Blue Pillars