2007 POV-Ray Desktops

[ZZII 527]

Available here:
http://web.mit.edu/first/2007pov/2007pov.html

Every year I spend the first weekend of build season re-learning POV-Ray so I can produce some really nice ray-traced renders of the FIRST field. While they serve almost no practical CAD or animation purpose (each image takes ~5 min to render), they make excellent desktop wallpapers. I'll be rendering for a while more tonight and updating the website, but to make the process quicker I decided to post what I have so far and ask for requests (screen resolution, camera angle, etc.) for renders so I can add them as I go. (I've already got driver's-eye-view-obstructed-by-ringers-on-the-rack rendering.) I'll also upload the POV-Ray source.

Hooray for MIT bandwidth. :cool:

[jgannon]

These are awesome! I have new wallpaper tonight. Very nicely done.

[DCA Fan]

Beautiful work! Can you render them in higher resolutions? Say, 1280?

[Trample-Bot]

beautiful.... just beautiful


+1 for you

[ZZII 527]

Beautiful work! Can you render them in higher resolutions? Say, 1280?

I'm rendering some common sizes up to 1920x1200 (and one much larger one for dual desktops) right now as well as some close-ups of the Rack. I have it running in the background because otherwise I can't do anything on my computer, so it may take a while to get them all posted.

[Zoheb N]

these are awesome.. i have already converted my work and home computer to have them as a background

[AustinSchuh]

Those drawings are absolutely beautiful. My brother immediately switched over his desktop background to one of your renders.

I am amazed by the accuracy and thoroughness of your models.