Apocalypse Then

A series of 24 ray-traced images were completed in 1991 to illustrate an Atlantean theme (one has since been lost). These have been exhibited widely, and were featured in the gallery pages of Computer Graphics World, August 1991 issue. The software used to create the images was the Sculptor modelling programme written by King and a raytracer written by colleague Richard Wright while he was Research Fellow at IBM, Winchester. The modelling programme ran on 8-bit frame stores, while the ray-tracer ran on the University's DEC VAX mini. The backgrounds were prepared on the 8-bit framestore, onto which the 24-bit ray-traced image was antialiased. All the images were generated at PAL resolution (768 x 576), but even with this low resolution renderings could take days on the VAX.

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