An Inevitable Demise

Muhammad Hamza Mughal 7023628 (Single-Person Submission from group darkrai)¹

Figure 1: This figure represents an ages old problem in chess

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Inspiration

This is a famous chess puzzle from the Persian text called 'Kitab-Sharanj' (The book of Chess). This book dates back to 836 AD. The author Ad-Adli was known at his time as one of the best players of the Persian-slash Turkish area

His book was known as one of the first attempts of deep chess analysis and consisted of five levels. White to move and checkmate in three!

Workflow

I downloaded indiviudal chess pieces in Blender and places them on top of board. Then I added camera and lights like Spotlights and pointlights to get individual positions.

Lastly, I used Python console of the Blender to get direction vectors for camera and lights to use in my C++ Ray-Tracer.

Figure 1: Setting up scene in blender

Figure 2: Setting up lights and camera in blender

Figure 3: Getting vector directions from blender scripting

Contact

For questions, clarifications, please get in touch with:
Muhammad Hamza Mughal (mumu00003@stud.uni-saarland.de)