EMAIL:  mroreo123@aol.com
NAME:  Hero Ngauv
TOPIC:  Childhood
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:  The Last Day of Summer
COUNTRY:  USA
WEBPAGE:  none
RENDERER USED:  Povray 3
TOOLS USED:  Photoshop (for scanning and conversion)
RENDER TIME:  about 3 hours (forgot to write down the time)
HARDWARE USED:  Pentium Pro 200, 32 meg ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Who hasn't grown up without good ol' Winnie the Pooh?  This image was 
based on one of the latest Winnie the Pooh videos, "The Search for 
Christopher Robin."  Here, Christopher Robin and Pooh are watching a 
sunset as they enjoy each other's company.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Nearly every major object is a custom-made blob object.  This includes 
the tree branches, both characters, and the hill.  Sure, I could've 
used other primatives, but it wouldn't have the same look as a blob.  
A height field for the hill would've resulted in the use of huge amounts 
of memory or nasty triangles, even with the smooth option turned on.  I 
wanted the leaves to look as realistic as possible, so I went searching 
outside for a nice candidate to scan in.  I converted one copy of this 
to greyscale for use as a leaf heightfield to simulate the curviness of 
leaves.  Then I mapped the leaf onto the heightfield and voila!  Instant 
leaf.  The tree is really one branch object copied over and over in a 
nested #while loop.  The leaves were scattered amongst the branches at 
random.  The leaves on the hill itself were really two sets of image maps.  
I used a #while loop to copy a set of imagemaps at random.  The top layer 
is the leaf map while the shadow is the same image with ambience and diffuse 
shading turned down to make it near black.  The text in the image is a part 
of the source as flat text objects with a transmit value of 0.75.  The 
clouds were made with a #while loop of disc objects with an onion texture.  
If there are any further questions or comments, feel free to email me.