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"Vase"
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My first Pov-Ray image. It is a surface of revolution object which I think I got from the include files in version 3.1. I put it on a way too reflective plane with a ripple normal, added a light source and camera, and it produced a result which I was awestruck over. I was hooked.
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Scene file for viewing here: vase.txt
Scene file for downloading: vase.pov | | by Ben Scheele 4-10-00
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"Clicker"
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This was an exercise in realism. I wanted to see if I could imitate an object, so I picked a Newton's Clicker. I took a couple shortcuts in the modeling of it through CSG, but I think the textures are very accurate. I later added radiosity and an area light.
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Scene file for viewing here: clicker.txt
Scene file for downloading: clicker.pov | | by Ben Scheele -- initial 4-11-00, intermediate 3-15-02, final 3-8-03
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"Height Field Experiment"
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This image was an early attempt at using height fields in my scenes. The golden liquid that the shapes are floating on was made with the same image used to cut the iridescent surfaces into them. I loved the process in which this scene came together, and I have felt no need to update it or try to improve upon it.
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| | by Ben Scheele 4-21-00
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"The Oracle"
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This was a major project that went through several phases, and is not complete yet either. It all started with my constructing of a pillar that I saw in a magazine. I thought, "hmm, it needs to be made into a temple." So I made that, manually placing each of the couple dozen pillars, since I did not know how to use while loops at the time. I then made the central altar, and put it on a rock in a foggy sea, with stairs leading into the water. It was unconvincing, so then I got the idea to use a Mandelbrot set image in a height field for the cliffs that it could rest on. I added a couple sentry pillars, and some clouds. Recently, I improved some textures, changed the water, and added radiosity.
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| | by Ben Scheele -- initial 4-19-00, intermediate 4-23-00, final 3-16-03
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"My Lamp"
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One day during the last winter vacation, I decided that I wanted to make a lamp. And I did. I started with the idea of using a hyperbolic mirror to spread the light created in a fluorescent ring bulb. The way it works is that you turn the bars on top towards the white circles to make it brighter, and lift them to raise the glass. The scene file is over 10 kilobytes in size. I was typing like a fiend all day long. For the final version, I took away the photons, added more light sources to the ring light, and lowered the glass "lampshade" all the way.
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Scene file for viewing here: my-lamp-half-source.txt
Scene file for downloading: my-lamp-half-source.pov | | by Ben Scheele -- initial 12-16-02, final 3-8-03
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"Cactus Flower"
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I created this scene as an entry in Paul Bourke's supershapes contest hesd this spring. There weren't many entrants, so voting was canceled. I ended up receiving a very cool book as a prize for my entry, so I guess I was kind of an unofficial winner. You can get more information on Supershapes (and also see my image), on Paul Bourke's supershapes page. The include files I used can be found on that page as well. If you're going to try rendering my image, you may want to turn off the radiosity and area lights.
The butterflies are 2d supershapes, and the cacti and flowers are 3d supershapes. The sand is a bunch of torii that are expanded and contracted as they are translated to represent dunes. The needles on the cactus are all csg objects that I translated and scaled to space them as they are on real cacti. I gave the objects glassy or metallic finishes because I knew it would be very tough to make this image photorealistic, and I thought I could give it a unique style and some coherence with this approach. I arranged all of the objects carefully to give it a dynamic composition. Don't the butterflies look like they are fluttering back and forth? Have fun exploring the source code!
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Scene file for viewing here: cactus-flower.txt
Scene file for downloading: cactus-flower.pov
| | by Ben Scheele -- initial 5-18-2004, secondary 5-23-2004, and final on 5-30-2004
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