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19-05-2024 - Skulls

I recently watched the movie 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', so I researched this dilemma of ancient history. To little surprise, I discovered that many have been made by past civilizations in different parts of the globe. It's a real mystery how they managed to work with such complicated materials as crystal, obsidian, or precious gold without the use of technological machinery?! My personal thought is that throughout the intertwining of lost civilizations over the past millennia, technology has always been a part of humankind and only recently rediscovered... However, this is just a thought since there is no evidence for something that deteriorates until it vanishes within a few centuries.

I created this image on the occasion of my latest purchase in the Amiga world, namely a 50mhz 68060 rev1 CPU, which I mount on a Terrible Fire 1260 board on my Amiga Micronik, accompanied by the powerful ZZ9000 graphics card. It's incredible the power of this real processor that in no way falls into today's FPGA architectures, showing what an Amiga workstation could do in 1995!

The computing time was formidable despite the very powerful CPU (just over 50 hours), and since I dismantled the previous 68040, I thought to add some details to the image, namely two other skulls (the golden one and the other in obsidian) in addition to the blood. Everything is equipped with reflections, and moreover, there is a factor of 1.6 in the light refraction concerning the crystal skull. There are 3 spotlights in the scene, in order to create diffuse shadows. The marble surface is a texture on a plane, as I did not like the procedural one from Lightwave. I conclude by writing that the skulls are a model taken from the web and converted into Lightwave 5.0 format with the free Windows software '3D Object Converter 10.6', leading to a very voluminous model in Amiga terms, over 1Mb each in size.

The blue fire was created with ArtEffect 4.0, again on Amiga starting from an image downloaded from the web and then used as a background in the scene.

 

CONTEXT
Every historian wonders how it is possible to find artifacts of this type from the ancient world. The vast majority dismiss the problem by stating that they are modern fakes, but this is the easiest and most summary way. Believing in their authenticity, there are a thousand questions to ask about how past civilizations, probably technological, managed to create skulls from the very hard obsidian, or crystal, to the most precious gold. Many have been found, and with certainty, they do not promise anything good, so I added blood to the base...

From here, you can download the image calculated with a real Amiga and Lightwave 3D 5.0: DOWNLOAD

Blue fire on ArtEffect 4 Amiga

Final mage on ArtEffect 4.0 Amiga

The Lightwave scene on Amiga real