EMAIL: jsull@ibm.net
NAME: James Sullivan
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.00.watcomC10.5
TOOLS USED: PMView, Pic Lab, tape measure, BlueCAD, micrometer, calculator
RENDER TIME: 10 hours 37 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 486dx2 80Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Since it's always summer here in Hawaii, I decided to throw together
some of my favorite things.  Fireworks are a year round occurance and
especially appropiate for July (in the U.S.).  I love playing dominos at
the beach, but the "sunset over the water" is almost as over worked as
checkboard floors, so I put in the Waianae mountains visable from my
lanai (balcony).  I put the dominos on an expanded metal table with some
refreshments.  The inflateable pool and beach ball were added to remind
me of my old home in land locked Kansas.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The table is made using cylinders and tori for the legs, linear lathes
for the rim and center, and nested while loops to difference the holes
in the expanded metal from the cylinder table top.  I sketched it out in
two dimentional CAD to get the proportions and dimentions correct, then
just copied and rotated the legs.  

I'm really proud of the dominos (it's a shame they're so small).  They're
made from four boxes, twelve cylinders, and eight tori.  The boxes are
for front/back face, left,right face, and two for top/bottom face.  The
cylinders round off the edges and the tori round off the corners.  The
pips are carved using spheres and the line is a cylinder capped with
spheres.  This was also drafted first on paper then CAD.

The inflatable pool is a cylinder for the bottom and two tori for the
sides.  The texture is bozo.  The water is a cylinder with ripples.  The
beach ball is a sphere with a gif mapped onto it.  I took the OS/2 logo
and copied and streched it to map better onto the sphere using PM View.

The ashtray is a cubic spline lathe cut by boxes and cylinders.  The
cigarette is a two cylinders and a cone.  The filter cylinder is bozo
texture using two shades of tan/brown.  The paper is white, and the ash
is granite with a color map of red, orange, white, gray, and black.  The
dimentions were taken from a Camel wide.

The fire works are a complicated union of the streaks.  The streaks are
a sphere for the bright end and a scaled hemishpre for the rest of the
streak.  I borrowed the idea from a picture I downloaded.  To who it may
concern: Mahalo nui loa! (Thank you very much!)

The mountains are a height field based on the plasma2.gif in the POV
distribution.  I converted it to a targa and smoothed it out using PicLab.
The clouds are an inverted sphere (I hate the warnings) textured bozo that
goes from clear to white to gray with some transmit thrown in to make the
ones closer to the horizon more red.  The sky is another inverted sphere
with an altitude gradient going from red to blue to dark blue.  The 
grass is a plane textured with granite color maped with various shades
of green.

The glass is an old DKB v2.01 object I created in 1990.  It's an
intersection of five primitives.  Two planes cut the top and bottom.
A quadric cone is the outside.  A parabola is the inside, and an inverse
sphere makes the hollow part in the bottom.  The liquid is the same
parabola and a plane.

P.S. The reason it's called table2 is because the table was the first
object created for the scene and I've already got another table.  A
folding card table.