EMAIL             : 101741.541@compuserve.com
NAME              : Fabien MOSEN
TOPIC             : CHILDHOOD
COPYRIGHT         : I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
TITLE             : A child playing with his toys
COUNTRY           : BELGIUM
WEBPAGE           : ???
RENDERER USED     : POV 3.02
TOOLS USED        : Torpatch; Corel Draw 3;
RENDER TIME       : 9 hours
HARDWARE USED     : AMD K6 - 64 Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION : 
A child playing with his toys; I will not earn many points for originality
this time !!  Note the "raytracing" toy.  All objects were originally
modelled for this scene.  The window and plinth constructive details are
carefully made, wood is always oriented along the lenght of parts.  
The table is an original design, and the chairs were inspired by those
of a famous manufacturer of bentwood chairs : Thonet (www.thonet.de).
The pink things outside are part of childhood dream.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED :

Apart the label on the "fisher's pride" box, no image-map was used.
The tiled wooden floor is made of many boxes; The bentwood chairs are 
made with the help of "torpatch".  Everything else is made by hand-coded
CSG.  The child's head and body is made by a combination of blobs and
classical CSG, the hair is a bunch of "stripes" with a hairy texture and 
some toruses.  The eye is completely modelled, including a refractive ...
(don't know the word in english; the transparent "lens", you know !).
This is the first time I model human beings.  I had difficulties to find 
some informations about drawing (and thus modelling) a child's head; the
only source I found said that there were no straight rules to draw a 
little child's head, because they are inconsistent, and quickly changing.
But the shemes they had helped me to start (draw two circle distant from...
trace a line that... etc etc).