EMAIL:gshaw@monotix.co.za	
NAME: Gail Shaw
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Horror of a deadline
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
RENDERER USED: Pov-ray 3.1 Superpatch
TOOLS USED: Paint shop pro (creating imagemaps, heightfields and conversion to jpg)
            sPatch (Blade of the sword)
            Moray 3.1 (Pieces of paper)
            SplineEditor (Plate)
RENDER TIME: 2 hrs 37 min
HARDWARE USED: PIII 450Mhz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Anyone involved in computers for more than a few months knows the feeling.
The project deadline is fixed (if you're lucky, otherwise it is moving forwards). 
For every bug fixed another two appear, and the client keeps phoning/emailing 
asking for new features and complaining that 'That's not what I asked for'
Late nights at the comuter become necessary, then the norm. You get tired, irritated
and develop a short temper. Usually this only occurs for a few weeks every month or so.
But what happens when the deadlines keep coming, the work never eases and the problems
never go away?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The image is mostly CSG. The blade of the sword is made of bezier patches, modelled
in sPatch, and the pieces of paper are also Bezier patches modelled in Moray. The
Pizza box picture, calendar and screen are all imagemaps, as are the writing on the
pieces of paper and the CD box inlays.  All the cables are sphere sweeps.

The keyboard came from the POV objects collection and the books from an include file 
I found on the web a long time ago. The monitor and coffee cup I modelled for previous 
scenes last year, the rest was modelled op needed

I haven't included all the imagemaps due to the size of the zip file. If anyone wants
the missing gif files please mail me and I'll send them as soon as possible.