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Detailed Description/Unique Modeling Approaches

Each column is extruded from a cog shaped curve. The curve was obtained by taking alternating sections, 10 degrees apart, from two different sized circles.
The bases of the columns are made by a surface of revolution of a curve.
The final picture consists of 4 whole columns, and 1 "Broken" one, created by boolean operations. All of the columns are texture mapped, & have surface qualities.
The sky and floor are just boxes placed in the background. I originally used a huge sphere for the sky, so the sky would always be there no matter the view point, but this slowed the rendering and raytracing down by far too much.

Difficulties:

I ran into a few problems with ray trace. It would not raytrace a box which was grouped with an object that you are going to ray trace. The only way it would raytrace an box is if it was included in the list of objects for "dumpGeomFile" or if you used "makeGeom(of_the_box)"

Source File(s):

pillar.scl

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