EMAIL: chris@bluelectrode.com
NAME: Chris Spencer
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Three Pumpkins
COUNTRY: United States of America
WEBPAGE: www.bluelectrode.com (it's there but not up)
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray v3.1
TOOLS USED: Moray v3.1, Photoshop v5.0.2
RENDER TIME: 1 minute 10 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III, 128.0MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
        So close to Halloween how could I resist?  
        The scene consists of three carved pumpkins, one sitting atop
        the other, each with a devilish expression.  Each pumpkin's face
        is back lite by an internal point light.  The background
        consists of a brick wall and granite floor, although it's pretty
        hard to see because I left out all other light sources besides
        the one in the pumpkins.  The darkness hides practically
        everything, good or bad;)
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        As an amateur modeler (this being my first rendering) I will be
        fairly forthcoming with my tricks and techniques, since most
        probably already know how easily I created this scene.  
        First, I created and unioned eight spheres, positioned in a
        circular pattern, which I then gave a unique gradiated texture.
        I then copied everything I had made so far and scaled its new
        twin slightly smaller.  I then differenced my two unions,
        creating the basic hollow pumpkin shape.  Using a tapered sweep,
        implementing the Grass texture, I modeled a rudimentary stalk,
        which I positioned at the center top of the pumpkin.  Then,
        using several translational sweeps, I unioned eyes, nose, and
        mouth and differenced this with the pumpkin shape to create the
        carved face.  Back-lighting the face with an internal point
        light, the first (middle one) pumpkin was complete!  
        Now, using the first completed pumpkin as a template I soon
        created two more ghoulish friends for my initial creation.
        Finally, I positioned one atop the other and, with a little
        imaginative angling to create composition, and my signature
        created in Photoshop the scene was complete!