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The Persistence of Ignorance

The Persistence of Ignorance is a gallery of computer generated images. I create these images with a Raytracer, a kind of program that uses a 3D technique called (obviously) Raytracing to obtain a picture from a virtual scene, previously defined. There are many raytracing programs out there, most commercial, but I use only POV-Ray, an amazing and free raytracer, and his unofficial sequel MegaPOV.

In addition to the galleries, the site contains some of the source code used to generate these, and also information about the techniques I often use. Finally, there is the almost mandatory links section with a few URLs related to POV-Ray. Please send any comment, suggestion or criticism, about the images or the site, to jaime at ignorancia (dot org).

Thanks for the visit, and enjoy the images!

02/20/08 : New work in progress
Yet another still life Yet another still life
As inspiration wasn't coming, I took a look at my old images, to see if I any was worth a remake... seems you have to come back to the origins to find the inspiration again. Finally, I decided for something like my old "bodegon" image.
02/06/08 : More cars...
Car modeling Modeling cars with Wings3D
More car images... the last ones before I park this project.
02/05/08 : Raining scene finished
Raining It's raining!
At last I finished this raining scene... and also created a little demo of the simple raining macros I wrote for it.
04/18/08 : Christmas baubles sources
I just uploaded a demo for the baubles & garland scene, because a poster on the newsgroups asked for it.
02/09/08 : Heightfield-based Isosurfaces
A new "kit" to create landscapes with isosurfaces based on heightfields, derived from my experiments with Geomorph and enhanced with includes from the Project Tierra: HF2ISO
02/05/08 : I'm not dead!

I know it seemed so, but no... I was only a bit lazy, a bit bussy and also addicted to Torcs, an open source racing game.

But finally I decided to finish and publish all the pending works... for a start, I just uploaded the last images for the raining scene and also a demo for the raining macros.

Oh.. and as usual, I had to change a bit the design of the site.

07/02/07 : New color spaces

Two additional wide-gamut color spaces for the LightSys package (see the Extras on the download section).

07/02/07 : Coins sources

Upon the request of a visitor, I prepared a zip with a basic demo of the coin heightfields generation and assembling.