Artwork created in 1999

• Renderer: POV-Ray
• Click on the following links to download these 3D models and macros in POV-Ray format :
  • Windows and balconies
  • Brick walls and cobblestones
  • 19th century lamplight
• When you live in an old city like Paris, it is very tempting to try to recreate the atmosphere of the past, when this past seems to surface at every street corner, in spite of the multiple layers of make-up plastered by modern urbanism. Photographs by Charles Marville or Eugène Atget let you imagine how Haussman's or Zola's Paris was, particularly when you recognise in an old picture the facade or gable of a still surviving building.
• Two weeks were necessary to create the macros and two other weeks were spent in building the 10 different houses, the cat and then putting everything together. Almost every object had its dummy counterpart to speed up test renderings.
• The picture was overdetailed for a 600 x 800 rendering and was made for a very large print. Just try to find the second cat...