springeq.jpg.txt
Image by Jason McNabb Hough -
[email protected]
Created with POVRay 2.2, Moray 1.53, and 3D Studio 3
Topic: Science - I asked a number of engineers here at Qualcomm to
tell me the first image that came to mind when they hear the word
science. The most interesting reply was "Schematic drawings by Leonardo
DiVinci". I persued it and discovered this device that Leonardo
devised centuries ago - its purpose is to Equalize the release of a
spring. It's not exactly as his drawing shows it, I did take a few
artistic liberties in creating it. I wanted to make the image look like
the object was in a museum.
Creation: The model took the majority of my time. Creating the spiral
in the center proved nearly impossible with Moray, and way too time
consuming. So, I grudgingly resorted to 3D Studio (I prefer to use all
shareware normally). Everything else was done entirely with Moray and
simple editing of POVray files. It took me total about 10 hours.
Rendertime: 2 minutes 11 seconds - 6 Sun Sparc20's (4 processor's each)
using pvmpov.
POV files and related files availiable on request.
