TITLE: School Lunch (What's Next, Dreaded Veal Cutlets and Krafp Dinner?)
NAME: Sonya Roberts
COUNTRY: CanadaWEB PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Soho/Lofts/1022
http://webhome.idirect.com/~sonyar


EMAIL: Sonya_Roberts@geocities.com
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
JPGFILE: lunch.jpg
ZIPFILE: lunch.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.01.watcom.Win32 Pentium Optimised , POVRay
3.01.msdos.wat-cwa

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop 3.0 to add file info and convert to JPG. Also to
create several image maps and height fields.
Texture Magic 0.95 for creation of many of the textures.
POVRay 3.01 Windows interface (with customized insert menu) for all coding and
test renders.
My otherwise unassisted and overworked brain to layout and plan objects.

RENDER TIME: 
    7 hours, 14 minutes, and 14 seconds for 2,707 objects. Feels wierd
to be doing my final rendering in less than days of time.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium Pro 200 w/64 meg memory and Matrox Millenium 2mg Graphics
Card

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Well, it's time for a little lunch.  Let's see what the Ogres in The Kitchen
have dished out for us today...hmmm, whoever wrote the menu is definately a
graduate of the School of Artful Misspellings.

What a nasty looking sandwich - you get the feeling it's about to start eating
my brocolli.  Which has been steamed to a lovely, limp and slimy olive green
colour and texture.  And I have a suspicion that the "Best Before" date on my
milk passed away some time ago.  Pun definately intended *GRIN*.

Is this supposed to be chocolate pudding?  Why is it so...ummm...lumpy?  And
what are those greyish-green stripes in it?  I have a strong suspicion it's NOT
mint flavoured, whatever it is...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Okay, I originally had two ideas for the contest; this was my second one, which
I'd been hoping to attempt using BMRT.  However, this contest fell during the
last month-and-a-half of my schooling, so I was too cronically short on time to
get around to learning BMRT.  So I wasn't going to do this one...until, at the
last minute (mid-morning on April 29) I decided I really wanted to do this
little image anyway, even if it woiuldn't be up to quite the standard of detail
of my usual entries. 

Maybe a minimalist entry is good.  I had lots of fun coming up with the
disgusting items featuring on today's meal, and then creating them.

The tray is made out of difference superellipsoids intersected with a box.  The
glass of milk is created the same way.  The plate is a lathe object (I copied
it over from the plate I used in my other entry, "Three A.M.").

The spilled milk is a height field I created in Photoshop, as is the mustard in
the sandwich.  The mustard didn't QUITE work out correctly, I forgot to trim
off the zero-level of the height field, and unfortunately I'm running short on
time to fix it and re-render :(

I know, it's cheese!  Yeah, mustard-coloured cheese!  That's the ticket!

The bun for the sandwich was created as a blob, cut open for the fillings by
differincing a flat box.  The textures for the milk, mustard, lunch meat,
bread, and chocolate pudding were all created using Texture Magic.  The slices
of lunch meat are just stretched short-but-wide cylinders.  The tomatoe slice
is also a short-but-wide cylinder, that I've image mapped and bumped mapped
with some graphics created in Photoshop.

The pattern on the plate was created in Corel Draw, exported to TGA, and cleaned
up in Photoshop before use.

The brocolli was created using my almost-but-not-quite-finished version 3.0 of
my TREES utility.  I should have the new version completed and posted to my POV
Ray site within the week.  I have *NOT* included the incomplete TREES version
in my .ZIP file, but everything else needed to create this image is there.

The olives are squashed spheres and torri.  The toothpicks are made of cylinders
and cones.  The acrylic menu holder is just some boxes.  The menu was created
in Photoshop.  Because of the reflection the text isn't QUITE as clear as I'd
like, so I'll repeat the list here so you know what the meal features:
- Roast Beast Sandwich
- Screamed Vegetables
- Moldy Chocolate Pudding
- Skum Milk