EMAIL: schimmler@ica.uni-stuttgart.de
NAME: Marc Schimmler
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: fish & chips
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: http://www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/povray.html
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1e for linux (unofficial compile)
TOOLS USED: sPatch, gimp, kolors.inc by Uncle Ken, xv, paper & pencil
RENDER TIME: about 6 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90 with 48 MB ram



IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This picture is a result of a OT thread at c.g.r.r. A well known Pover who
started working at Motorolla in Texas made a remark about the quality (or the
lack of it) of the canteen food served there. Instantly fish & chip came to my
mind and I asked him about it but I fear my joke was lost on him... :-(

This was the starting of this picture. From the imaginary diary of D.C. in A.:

"Today I started working at the company. Work was fine until I went to
lunch. My colleagues were talking about "brain food" or "hi-tech food" served
at the canteen. I shrugged my shoulders and thought to myself what the heck
they meant. They told me just to sit down and that they would bring me the
plate so I took the offer and waited. I was just in the middle of my
thoughts when they returned ... but what this ... FISH & CHIPS ??!!!" 



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The biggest work had been the texturing here. The fried fish is a heightfield
made with gimp, the ketchup are a few blobs and the chips are csg with a small
image map for the printed text. The plate, the salad leaf, the fork and the
knife were made with sPatch while the glass objects are all pure csg. Render
times became a real problem on my old machine when the textures became more
and more complicated. A special thank to Ken Tyler for his kolors.inc and Axel
Hecht for his Perl script to create a html-page of it. I also greet all those
at new.povray and c.g.r.r. Especially D.C. and I hope he will forgive me my
joking.