EMAIL: b.b.boelens@student.utwente.nl
NAME: b.b.boelens
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 2.2
RENDER TIME: 2 hours and 27 minutes
HARDWARE USED: P-100
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Watch Out For This Bodyguard"
What is it ?
When I was at the beach in the very early morning I saw 2 men jogging.
When the first man passed me, I noticed the second man. At the moment I
watched the 2nd man, he raised his gun and I saw a little red beam of his
laserpointer pointing at me. Suddenly I realized that US President just
passed me (1st man) and that this guy must be his bodyguard.
I was the person at the wrong place, wrong time at the beach...
So I got shot...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW I THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
A blablah-introduction for "Watch Out For This Bodyguard"
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I played around with POVray for one year when an old friend 
of mine popped out of his room and came to me. He asked me if I 
could make a picture for him, which he would like to give his 
girlfriend. It should be a scene which expresses his love for 
her. (And well,. since boredom sucks, I told him, I'll give it a 
thought....)
He asked me to create a scene with 2 persons floating in a crystal 
sphere somewhere in space. (Adorable, isn't it ?)

The Understanding:
        One week ago I opened my old book of POVray, but only found 
cylinder-formed robots, which could express perfectly a cold-hearted 
person.... (little hint for the authors of the POVray-book..)
I tried to create bodies with blobs, but failed in it. (not enough -
and well written instructions in the book, I guess)
So I played around with spheres, scaling them. Oh boy, did I create 
a "nice" body than. (My first try you can get with source-files...)
After finishing this project I started to think more about creating a 
musculair body.

EUREKAH!!!:
        And than,..... suddenly EUREKAH !!! Saw photos of 
bodybuilders in a magazin. (Nope, my body couldn't help me to 
construct good shaped bodies, since mine is build of beer, eheheh)
So,.. I played around with scaled spheres and noticed that I could
create a good chest. I got the hang of it and continued with the rest.
At a certain point I had the whole body finished and thought about the
sea, so created the sea. To create some action in the scene I gave
the "guy" a gun as if he's a bodyguard following his jogging boss at 
the sea, in the early morning.
And since he has for the first time a laserpointer/gadget klicked on his
gun, he plays a bit with it (red beam).


What A Luck.
I was visiting the POVray site and saw that there was a contest with Summer
as topic. I just thought about my (yesterday) finished scene and that it
would be nice to join the contest with it. So,. here it is.

I hope you like it.