This project was
inspired by a photo
of one of the Reading Rooms at the New York Public Library.
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I started with the room
basics: walls, textures, windows, chandeliers, and tables. Eager to add
people, I used a macro to generate random sitting people.
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Next, I added some architectural
details as well as the bookshelves. The book textures are pseudo-random
colors picked for a few predefined gradients. I was planning to use
focal blur for the background, so I didn't care too much if they looked
a bit repetitive.
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Then I changed my mind. Instead
of a vast room, I started to focus on one person in the room. I
modelled the book, and reused some a pen, binder, stickies, and paper
pad from previous projects.
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I moved the scene from day into
night. With feedback from the online POV-Ray community, I was able to
improve a number of details.
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Detail of the hands. Some of the
modelling limitations can be seen.
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