EMAIL: karl@pemail.net
NAME: Karl Manning
TOPIC:Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.1e.watcom.win32(Pentium II optimised)
TOOLS USED:
SPatch 1.5
PaintShop Pro 6

RENDER TIME: 2hr 5 mins
HARDWARE USED: 233MHz PII 64 MB
TITLE: Rainy night downtown
COUNTRY: England
WEBPAGE: http://www.gfxgallery.com
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's Tuesday, its raining and Ted the bouncer is looking at a long night
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Most of the textures have a high reflection and tight highlights to simulate the effects of rain.

The road and pavements are made using a heightfield tile and setting the water_level(!)

The office buildings are simple csgs.

The light sources fall into 2 seperate categories. The traffic lights / street lights have high ambient on the shape and a point light just in front of it.

The lights round the door are point lights infront of a mirrorred surface. This means that the lights are visible in the mirror, and so look like the mirrors *are* the lights.

Ted's body was created in Spatch, and his head is blob construct.

The lit head (which gave the nightclub its name) is a heightfield based on a scanned image of a gargoyle. It needed a fair bit of work in Paint shop before it worked as a heightfield, in particular is has been blurred a lot to get the smooth contours

The sign is a prism and the rest of the building is simple csg.

The car's wheels are created in spatch. I couldn't create the main body using it so its madeup using 2 superellipsoids and lots of differences 

The walker with the umbrella is some more csg


Karl Manning
karl@pemail.net
18/4/2000