EMAIL: pan@syix.com NAME: Doug Sterrett TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Daydream (dadream6.jpg) COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://www.syix.com/q/ RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.01(Win95) TOOLS USED: PovSB(1), PSP 4.12(2), imagination, mind and fingers(3) RENDER TIME: 06h03m07s HARDWARE USED: pentium-133 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Anyone who has sat through a lecture class at college in a hall with 300+ other students (or stood lecturing before such a group), or anyone who has particpated in graduation exercises at a large (50,000+) university, or anyone who has interviewed hundreds of recent graduates for employment (or been one of those hundreds) might have had the thought that education sometimes resembles an assembly line manufacturing process. One can easily be dazed by the unending stream of apparently identical freshly baked cookie cutter graduates. This is my image of that perception. (another thought about this - it takes a lot of dough to make all those cookie students - and to pay for the tuition) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: (1) I used PoVSB to model the table legs and rolling pin because I wanted smooth triangle lathe objects. The tree object was produced with a modified version of Sonya Roberts tree .inc file. All else was modelled with the built in editor of Pov-Ray Win95. (2) Paint Shop Pro was used to add the signature and to convert to jpeg format. I had to use compression level 6. (3) Fingers were used to type the 9738 lines of code. The table-top, framing, cookie cutter and background wall blocks are CSG objects. The dough and cookies are combinations of blob and CSG objects. The sky is a doubled sphere with modified standard cloud textures - as are the tree level and floor level fog layers. The floor is tiled with an parquet image map taken from Axem which can be found at http://axem2.simplenet.com/ I must have rebuilt this scene dozens of times since starting it. I ended up using only one-half the objects actually modelled - I kept adding and subtracting, re-arranging, re-lighting and re-modifying continuously. This has been a lot of fun.