TITLE: Kept In
NAME: Martin Magnusson
COUNTRY: Sweden
EMAIL: amarok@geocities.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9946/
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: keptin.jpg
ZIPFILE: keptin.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 2.02

RENDER TIME: 
    Roughly 100 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Sun Alpha for the final trace


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    It's a late winters day. The sun is setting and all
the children have gone home - just one naughty boy is still kept in...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The bike, the stand and the
curtains were modeled with Moray, the snowball on the wall in Blob Sculptor, 
and the rest was written in POV for Windows' text editor. I learned a lot 
about textures and lightning when making this scene (at least the brick
texture), especially from looking at the source code for Jaime Vives Piqueres'
"Abandonada".
Thanks a lot for making that image, Jaime. 

The wall is made out of a few thousand bricks, and since they have a crand
finish they gave the anti alias algorithm quite a lot of work. The earth
and the snow are blobs. At first I tried cutting out foot prints in the snow
using various kinds of differences and intersections, but I realized that
I simply didn't have time for that. An intersection with thousands of blobs
and a few cylinders takes a *lot* of time. 

I also had a hard time trying to make the outdoor lightning look like a late 
afternoon, and the curtains looking like if they were lit from inside,
but when I tried radiosity, they really came alive. This is by far the most
computer tormenting scene I've created do far, I really wish I had a SPARC or
something like that... With my P133 it would have taken a week or so to finish
it, but fortunately I got some help, and Brian Robison
(brobison@ecst.csuchico.edu,
web page http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~brobison) did the final trace for me on 
ten Sun Alpha-computers. Thanks a bunch, Brian!