EMAIL: derekz@uswest.net
NAME: Derek Zahn
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Overreaction
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows
TOOLS USED: 
  sPatch, Leveller, Rhino 1.0 eval, Plant Studio, Paint Shop Pro,
  old freeware VI clone for text editing, lots of graph paper.
RENDER TIME:
  11 hours, 47 minutes
HARDWARE USED:
  Celeron 400, 256MB Ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
  Something horrible has happened behind the tool shed... More
  unpleasantness is sure to be found if you just look around a
  bit, but I'd run if I were you!
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
  As this was my first substantial graphics project, I wanted to
  get experience with a variety of techniques, and model everything
  myself rather than work from existing models, to learn.  Some
  objects are just hand-coded CSG (nails, boards, ring, can, blood);
  some are height fields (paint, flagstone, concrete); others were
  modelled with sPatch or the Rhino eval (finger, hacksaw, bottle
  cap, cigarette butts, flies, grass); the two outer plants were
  made with Plant Studio.  Textures are mostly hand-coded experiments.
  To make the gravel I wrote C programs to randomly generate mesh
  objects with about 2000 triangles each; then 30000 of these were
  randomly placed to avoid the flagstone; the gravel was just about
  the hardest part of the picture.  I spent a lot of time on this
  image and learned a lot, but I know I have barely touched a small
  fraction of the available techniques.  What fun!