These are images created with the Persistence of Vision ray tracer. The 800 x 600 image on the top won the 1998 International Ray Tracing Competition. But I think it is just a tease for what is coming to online simming... eventually.
I re-rendered the image in 1024 x 768 plus added a couple of extra planes and changed the perspective slightly. That is the image on the bottom. Both link to their respective larger versions.
Note - re-rendered it while I was at work today. Switched back to their perspective since it really does frame the action better. Going to drop in another torpedo bomber a little lowe r and nearer and try again but here is today's version. This is just too cool.
As you can see, anyone can pull down the software (FREE), grab the source files for this and many other images, change and re-render the image in any resolution you want - it is pretty damn easy but takes a bit of time. The 1024 x 768 image took 7 hours. The guys said it took 59 hours to render the 800 x 600 image on Pentium II 200's.
More details on POV
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Rape, pillage, then burn...
[This message has been edited by PakRat (edited 01-17-2001).]
