Mitch Richling: My First POVray project
Author: | Mitch Richling |
Updated: | 2021-05-22 |
Table of Contents
1. My First Povray Project
Below you will find a sequence of images that show the evolution of my very first POV-Ray project. By today's standards it is quite primitive, but the excitement it generated in the early 90's was very real! The subject is a crystal ball mounted on four blood red marble columns. Forming in the center of the ball is an explosive burst of energy. The final product took a day to render way back in the 90's.
1.1. Version 1
1.2. Version 2
1.3. Version 3
1.4. Version 4
1.5. Version 5
1.6. Version 6
This last version is much brighter. There are now several light sources inside the crystal ball, but outside the energy sphere. They are each the primary color of the energy sphere so that they will lay down lighting effects on other objects in the image. This effect could have been achieved by placing a very powerful white light source in the center of the energy sphere, but the rendering time would have been way too slow. Also in this version the lights external to the spheres have been moved away and lowered.