Project Proposal

Using POV-Ray to Create Realistic Images

Brian Engel
Computer Graphics II, 4003-571-70
Reynold Bailey

http://bengelcg.blogspot.com

The main goal of the project is to gain understanding of POV-Ray and use it to generate several different scenes using many of the techniques used in class. I’ll begin by creating a few simple scenes to gain understanding and then generate a more complex scene.

Project Objectives:

• Gain an understanding of the POV-Ray language
• Generate simplistic scenes, including the image from out ray tracer
• Create a much more detailed and photorealistic scene

Software:

• POV-Ray and Art of Illusion to create complex objects

Systems:

• Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 with 4gb of ram and a 9800GTX+
• Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo T8800 with 4gb of ram and Intel Integrated X3100

Project Components:

• Generating code to create photorealistic scenes
• Using Art of Illusion to create more complex objects to be used

Project Responsibilities:

• I will be undertaking all of the responsibilities

Project Timeline:

4/13 – 4/20

• Gain a basic understanding of POV-Ray and Art of Illusion
• Recreate assignment image
• Create a more complex object to be used in final scene
  

4/20 – 4/27

• Create several complex objects using Art of Illusion
• Figure out proper textures and materials to represent lifelike images
• Begin basic layout of complex scene

4/27 – 5/4

• Add detail to the scene
• Work on extra scene depending on first scenes progress
• Possibly model harder objects, such as water and fire

5/4 – 5/11

• Add final touches
• Prepare presentation document
• Render final images to be used for presentation

Final Presentation:

• Introduce POV-Ray
• Show code snippets to give basic understanding of POV-Ray
• Show code and run demo to re-create assignment image
• Introduce Art of Illusion and how it works with POV-Ray to generate complex objects
• Introduce final scene idea
• Go over elements involved with scene
• Show final scene