EMAIL: arte3d@luisvaloyes.uni.cc
NAME: luisvaloyes
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Dinner-4-One
COUNTRY: Colombia
WEBPAGE: http://www.luisvaloyes.uni.cc
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows
TOOLS USED: -EditPad
                       -Pbrush
                       -IrfanView
                       -PictureShark
RENDER TIME: 6 min 54 sec
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6, 32 Mb RAM, running Windows 98

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
how to finish a lonely day? with a lonely dinner... so I go to the supermarket, buy a lasagna, a six-pack, then I get back home, put my lasagna in the microwave, wait for some minutes, then I eat my lasagna with a beer and a piece of bread, what a cool night...

ok, I live alone and I like it, but now there are more people living alone, and having dinner alone, and sometimes it is sad to get back home at night and find nothing but an empty apartment and a frozen dinner in the freezer...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
1. MODELING: Everything was made with a text editor, EditPad. In this scene I used only primitive solids and CSG. I wrote all the code for this scene in about 4 or 5 nights, I started only a week before the deadline.
2. TEXTURES: This scene contains both procedural textures and image maps. I made all the image maps using Pbrush and then I used IrfanView to make the gif files.
3. SCENE: The final scene was entirely assembled using POV-Ray. All the required .inc files were organized with EditPad. There is only one light source in the scene. I still have not tested any of the new features of POV-Ray 3.5, so this scene must be compatible with older versions of POV-Ray.
4. IMAGE: The final image was rendered with POV-Ray as a 640x480 bmp file, then I used PictureShark to add the logo and save the image as a JPG file.

Notes: 
1. I just made this scene because I have not entered the competition in a year or something and I wanted to enter again, but I made it in less than a week, so I do not have great expectations about it...