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!

02/15/09 : Annual update: the images

There are new images on several pages:

Flying through isosurfaces (no, it isn't an animation!)

Photographic skin with fastSSS by Sam Benge

02/27/09 : Chief Architect tutorial

Some time ago, Chris Cason, the POV-Ray Team Coordinator, lend me a copy of Chief Architect X1, a professional home design software. This program uses POV-Ray as the internal raytracing engine, and also exports to POV format. Here is a tutorial on how to get better, more realistic results out of it.

02/15/09 : Annual update

Almost a year since the last update... wow! I'm really lazy!

This doesn't necessarily means that I had a lot of things pending to publish... in fact, 2008 was a rather unproductive year regarding POV-Ray as a hobby (although I started to do some work with POV-Ray, and I have good prospects to do more).

Anyhow, as I was reorganizing my /raytracing folder, I decided to publish the few things I did last year, and as a bonus I added also some forgot/stalled scenes I found in the process.

More images and other material will be coming soon..

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