Liftoff / Ascending (1st of September 2010)

gull, rock, sea, waves, foam
Gulls sail on the wind. They just cede to the air current that takes them far away in a second. Experienced birds control the wind well, and safely navigate, while young birds stumble and sink with its strong blows.

A. Šiber, a short note from vacation (2009)

Summer is over ("Summer's almost gone, summer's almost gone... The winter's comin' on, summer's almost gone"). A slightly depressing conclusion of mine after the end of yet another vacation, which, it seems to me become shorter every year. Or is it a subjective acceleration of time, some biological contraction instead of relativistic dilatation of a time interval? Whatever, summer's gone and I can't do nothing about it. Except for the image, which is its footprint, a memory of the gulls that fly over the cliffs just to sail on the wind.

a gull that screams

My gull does not sail on the wind, it ascends. The 3D model of the gull was made for the image O Magnum mysterium (sea cave) (so, it's been some time since then...), and here, on a full "daily" light one can more clearly see all its weaknesses.

sea, sea foam between the rocks

Perhaps the most challenging problem was to make "sea foam". In my representation, it is a complex texture of the water surface based on predefined mathematical functions (patterns, complex "pigments") that Povray deals with cleanly an successfully.

komad stijene

The rocks are also quite complicated mathematical objects and not (3D) mesh models. I think this is one of the strongest aspects of PovRay because one can get both the desired shape and its 3D "texture" by using sufficiently refined functions.

sea and reflection of the rock
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Last updated on 1st of September 2010.