EMAIL: jcelda@jet.es NAME: Jose Luis Celda TOPIC: Glass COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Family album COUNTRY: Spain - Europe WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 TOOLS USED: PovSb 0.99m PaintShopPro CorelDraw 6, CorelDream 3D and self made modules RENDER TIME: 7 hours 45 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 32Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I have engaged the hard way to the nirvana of fotorealism, and there is my first step. I want to dedicate it to my family, and specially to my wife, who was supported with resignation the incredible lot of hours speaking at home with a renderman rather than a human. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All textures are made manually, and the harder problem was the snow floating into the snow-ball, and the cigarette smoke. I've resold the first trick writing a bit of Visual Basic 4.0 code to generate a .inc file in POV source a describing lot of small spheres. The programs takes as parameters the radius, origin coordinates, density, iterativity and scale in x,y,z coordinates. Then the program compute a cloud of point enclosed in the spheroid described. (My friend graduated in physics was wisp a little formula to me :-) ) The smoke of the cigarette was made constraining a turbulent halo into a cyclonic shape made of raw triangles modeled with CorelDream 3D. Of course, the photos are scanned bitmaps. The photo of my daughter Irene was retouched with PSP (to add the clouded sky background). Comments are A L W A Y S welcome!