EMAIL: J.A.Bremer@student.tudelft.nl
NAME: Johan Bremer
TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Museum
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
WEBPAGE: http://www.zenial.nl/irtc, http://graphics.tudelft.nl/~johan/museum/
RENDERER USED: Animation RayTracer 0.1
TOOLS USED: Microsoft Visual C++
RENDER TIME: 1 hour 32 minutes 22 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 600 Mhz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I thought I'd try competing in the IRTC again. Current theme is 'museum'. I couldn't come up with
something witty so I'll just try and make some sort of standard museum.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I used my self-written raytracing program ART (Animation RayTracer) for this image. It's not a very
advanced program yet, but I'm working on it :)
The room consists of basic cube and cylinder objects lit by three light sources.
The windows and pillars were made by subtracting standard objects from other objects, something I
programmed especially for this image. It doesn't work perfectly yet but it's good enough for this
image.
The walls have a fine noise texture and the floor has a marble texture, both based on Ken Perlin's
noise formula. ( http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin )

The statue, curtain and rug are all made with a special technique called 'hypertextures', something
I'm working on for my graduation project. It's a very interesting technique, also made by
Ken Perlin.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/hypertexture
http://www.noisemachine.com
Basically the technique enables you to use procedural volume modelling for defining complex
objects. These objects must be visualized using volume rendering, so to show them in a raytracing
program it must use ray marching in the areas where the hypertexture objects are defined.

The museum is still way too empty for my taste, but sadly I didn't have more time.