EMAIL: aero@imnetti.fi
NAME: Eero Ahonen
TOPIC: Old Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: 
Calculator's evolution

COUNTRY: 
Finland

RENDERER USED: 
Povray for Linux 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
Gimp for cropping the paper, jpg-conversion and signing

RENDER TIME: 
44 hours 49 minutes 30.0 seconds (161370 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
AMD Athlon XP2100+, 512MB RAM, Matrox G400, Samsung SyncMaster 959nf, Agfa 
snapscan

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
The abacus has broken, and is almost fixed. While it has been broken, the owner
has been thinking about a simpler accessory for calculating, but realized that
it would bee too complex to use.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
First I made a standing abacus, the balls are simply balls with wooden material,
the strings are actually wooden cylinders, and rest is just boxes. Then I made 
the table (box with wooden texture) and the wall. The wall is made of beams 
(boxes carved with difference). Then I broke the abacus and falled it on the 
table. The calculators (very simple model) image I draw to paper and scanned 
it, made material and wrapped it around a box. The candle is cylinder, with a 
bit grainy normal on it's material, and it has 3 drops of stearine, made with 
simple lathe. The candles heart is a sphere sweep, with black material. The 
light is lathed; actually there's two lights inside of each other. The inner 
and smaller one is red, and the outer one is yellow (altough it's not quite 
visible). Personally I'm not happy with the candle, the light should be 
brighter, but it shouldn't brighten the whole image more than that. I'd say 
that the candle's light is pretty hard to make, and I ran out of time.
 There is also a floor, but 'cause the candles light doesn't get there, it's 
not visible at all...