EMAIL: kayway@ix.netcom.com
NAME:  Kerwin D Kanago
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray
RENDER TIME: 6hrs 14min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120 (HP Pavilion 7055)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
An ode to the old cliche "hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk", I
started this picture after hearing a friend remark that it really WAS
that hot one day. I tried to surround it with the kinds of things I
find on and in my sidewalk and grass in the summer including (sadly)
weeds, bare patches in the lawn, etc.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Everything was gone directly in the POV-Ray for windows editor.

I made the egg out of flattened blobs and spheres with patterned textures to
give it a raw look on the right and burn it on the left (after frying a lot of
egg-samples)

The bacon is a heigth field created by rendering a bumps pattern.

Three torus's make up the bike tire (body, tread and whitewall). The spokes
are a "three cross spoke pattern" made up of a number of cylinders (with much
thanks to the #while construct)

The sidewalk is a CSG made primarily of boxes and superellipsoids although I
used about 12 pigment maps to get cracks, bumps, varying shade, rocks, etc.

The paint on the jacks ball was cracked by exposure to the sun, wind, rain,
and a crackle pattern.

The grass is a combination of two effects. Most of it (like 25000 blades) are
generated from a height_field/image map whose TGA's were pov renderings based
on an exaggerated crackle pattern with variations in color, height, ground
height, and bare patches.

Since this gave a "too-regular/straight-up-and-down-only" pattern, I added
2000 more random blades of grass based on the intersection of a cylindar and 
a wedge.

The dandilion leaves are a sphere sliced by a prism with a torus "vein" up the
middle.