19th
August
2005
Tor Olav Kristensen
posted in Hurray for Geekdom |I was stumbling the internet, bleary eyed and work-avoiding when I happened across a “ray tracing contest” site. Ray tracing is the computer graphics where usually you see a steel ball bearing suspended above a checkerboard, with the checkerboard reflected in the ball bearing. It’s tracing the rays of light, or something.
There were some gorgeous examples of it in this competition/exposition, but the most jaw dropping was this gentleman’s. I find it particularily amazing because he will explain in math terms what the shape is that his pov-ray picture is of, and he has an artist’s sense of color and composition. Real left-brain and right-brain unity.
