EMAIL: luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com
NAME: luisvaloyes
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Isn't it romantic...?
COUNTRY: Colombia
WEBPAGE: http://www.luisvaloyes.uni.cc
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows
TOOLS USED: -Calimax Modeller
                       -POV-Ray
                       -EditPad
                       -Pbrush
                       -hamaPatch
                       -IrfanView
                       -Jans Formati 8
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 16 min 17 sec ( 8 min 12 secs for parsing, the rest for tracing)
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6, 32 Mb RAM, running Windows 98

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
...So you are gonna propose her to marry you...You'll need a perfect environment for a romantic dinner... a nice apartment with a stunning view, soft music (imagine it...), a good bottle of wine, a red rose, candles, a ring with a diamond, and off course, something really special to eat...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
1. MODELING: The rose, the hot dog and two or three more objects were modeled using hamaPatch, everything else was done with Calimax Modeller, using primitives, CSG and tons of lathe objects.
2. TEXTURES: I used just a couple of image maps, for the floor, the landscape of the background, the paintings of the wall and the hot dog's bread, everything else has procedural textures. I used POV-Ray, Pbrush and IrfanView to make the image maps.
3. SCENE: The room was made with a single Calimax file, with the camera in it's final position, and I just scaled and place each object where I needed it to be (almost). This scene has 5 light sources, one from each candle, two more from behind the camera and an external one, to light the landscape.I got an undesired giant shadow of the flower, but everything else is almost as I wanted... anyway, the scene took more than 2 hours to render, I guess because my PC is quite slow and because almost everything in the scene is made of glass or shiny metals, with lots of reflections...
4. IMAGE: The final image was rendered with POV-Ray as an 800x600 bitmap. I used Pbrush & IrfanView to add my logo, and Jans Formati 8 ( http://jansfreeware.com ) to make the JPG file.

Notes: 
1. If someone knows how to make a better flame for my candles, please e-mail me...
2. In the zip file I just included the hot dog, the flower and the candle, if you really need the entire source you can e-mail me...
3. I used to sign as Luis Valoyes for previous rounds, but I also make music and some other stuff and for that I sign as luisvaloyes, (sounds the same, but for me it's not the same...), so from now I will sign that way for my IRTC entries too... ( I guess nobody cares about it but I wanted to write it...)