EMAIL: ptdawson@voicenet.com
NAME: Paul T. Dawson
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for DOS
TOOLS USED: DOS Edit, Pilot Pen, Paper, Instant Coffee, Tastycakes.
RENDER TIME: 2 Hours 2 Minutes 30 Seconds (+A0.3 +R2)
HARDWARE USED: AMD 486-120 with 12 megs of RAM.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

"Fry An Egg On The Sidewalk", with a lot of people and things added.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Before starting this scene, I did the unthinkable and (gulp) turned OFF the
computer. Then I took a walk around the town, looking at everything. This
gave me a *lot* of ideas, especially houses, trees, sidewalks, and people!

My original idea, "Fry An Egg On The Sidewalk", was expanded to include an
entire street, with two houses, trees and shrubs, and... PEOPLE!

I couldn't find any all purpose "people" files for POV, so I set out to
create one. Don't worry, unlike some commercial programs (Poser), the people
in my include file have all of their clothes ON!

All of the POV code was typed in "by hand" - no modellers. I did *try* just
about every modeller, but I still prefer (and use) the text editor method.

There are over 100,000 individual blades of grass, each one made with three
skinny triangles. That's all done with the POV memory saving "mesh".

Oh, and I put in some of my "nested loop trees", with a nice include file!
There are eight copies of the big tree. Each one has 5 large branches, 25
medium branches, 250 small branches, and many thousands of leaves. Each
branch has a random angle (within defined limits). It's all 100% POV code!

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I'm writing this file at the EXTREME last minute, so if you need more
information about the scene, just check the source code (lots of comments),
or send me some e-mail with any questions.

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File List:

  EGGS-1.GIF - Label for the egg carton.
 LICENSE.GIF - Car license plate.
MAILBOX1.GIF - Name on mailbox.
MAILBOX2.GIF - Another mailbox.
 PAPER-1.GIF - Clothing texture.
  PEPPER.GIF - Pepper shaker.
    SALT.GIF - Salt shaker.
SHORTS-0.GIF - Clothing texture.

NOTAGAIN.TGA - Hideous picture for the big screen TeeVee in the house.

   CAR-1.INC - The little car (not very good!).
 FLOWERS.INC - The flowerpot, with flowers.
 HOUSE-1.INC - The right side house (sloppy).
 HOUSE-2.INC - The left side house (sloppier).

P4DEF_??.INC - These are the definition files for the "P4" people.

 P4_MAIN.INC - The main include file for the "P4" people.
PTD_TREE.INC - The nested loop tree.

FRYANEGG.POV - This (finally) is the actual scene file.

 P4_TEST.POV - Test scene for the "P4" people.

  TEST-1.POV - Test scene for HOUSE-1.INC.
  TEST-2.POV - Test scene for HOUSE-2.INC.
  TEST-3.POV - Test scene for CAR-1.INC.
  TEST-4.POV - Test scene for PTD_TREE.INC.
  TEST-5.POV - Test scene for FLOWERS.INC.

FRYANEGG.TXT - This file!

 P4_READ.TXT - Instructions for "Paul's Primitive POV People".

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NO Copyright: The official IRTC rules say "You may, of course, give your
permission personally to anyone you like to  do  anything with the files..
they are yours!". So, here it is: There are NO restrictions on copying or
displaying this picture, or using any of the source code - it's all free!

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Paul "What is this, a freakout!?!?" Dawson