EMAIL: boisvert@intranet.ca

NAME: Jean-Claude Boisvert

TOPIC: Science Fiction

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

RENDERER USED:  Povray 3.0 for Windows(tm)

TOOLS USED: 

     Corel Draw! to create height Fields object and some textures for the
object
     Corel paint:  to create and modify some image map textures.

RENDER TIME: 11 mins 37 sec

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 Mhz with 16 Meg Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
    
     The Name of the image is "CyberGirl reaches out into space."

     The idea came after I was playing with stretching faces on a sphere and the
funny
     distortion you get... Thus Cybergirl was born.  I wanted to give her a
techkie look so I
     added the resistor collar and the rows of capacitors.  But under her cold
exterior, she is
     trying to reach out.  That is depicted by the TV screen (virtual body) and
the speaker and
     scope.  I'll spare you the philosophical and freudian meanings.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
     

     The processes used were fairly simple,  but there were a lot of them.  Here
is a description
of the major object and their make-up:


     CyberGirl Head:  A sphere with an imagemap wrapped around it,  face came
from some   
     clothes catalog (K-mart or Sears or something). The image map was treated
with Corel
     Paint.

     Resistors:  Silver cylinder and imagemap cylinder.  They are colour coded
as per resistor
     code (Quiz: what are the values depicted?)

     Capacitors:  CSG object with a cylinder core minus a torus to depict the
"pinch". The
     image map was treated with Corel Draw! and exported as a GIF.

     Scope:  Height field was created with Corel Draw! and exported as a GIF
(Grayscale).  The
     actual signal was from a recording of a sacred word that was screen
captured from a
     Windows Sound utility.  The image map was made to match the Height field.

     Speaker Grill:  Similar process as the Scope above.

     TV Screen:  CSG object with 3 cubes,  the Cybergirl virtual body is an
image map that
     super-imposed and the ambient value was boosted up to give it a glow.

     Background:  A cube with an image map of an Hubble Telescope public
picture,  with an
     ambient value boosted.


P.S.  The Zip File Contains sample of the image maps I have used for buildup of
the picture.