EMAIL: jjanger@mail.cspp.edu NAME: Justin Janger TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: HCl Polo! COUNTRY: US WEBPAGE: None RENDERER USED: POV 3.0 TOOLS USED: none RENDER TIME: 13min, 43sec HARDWARE USED: P133 w 24 megs Ram and Win95 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Some may ask how this relates to school. Well, I have a good reason. All during high school, I saw the people on the water polo team walking around with H2O polo shirts. It was almost as if they were forbidden from saying the word water. It was ALWAYS H2O. This was the culmination of four years of education. Fine. How about a small change? It's just a few away on the chart. He he he. HCl is Hydro Choride or hydrochloric acid. Let's have fun and say that the pH is, oh I dunno, 3. Those of you that remember chemestry will smile at that. This is not how I originally saw the image. There were going to be bodies and skeletons and stuff like that. I started putting them into the picture and realized that it was one of the most tastless things I had ever seen. Funny, but tasteless. And kinda gross. I did the textures too well. So the the game is over. Look closely at the scoreboard. MIT stands for Masochistic Institute of Technology. Makes sense. The end result I'm happy with. Everything here is mine and done by hand. And for those of you that like to grade down because I also have another submission, please look at them and see that they have absolutely nothing in common. And also, I love reading comments. A lot. Please put anything down, if just the word "anything" (someone will). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Okay, item by item: BTW, this is what the pool looked like at my high school. I got pretty close. That's the reason for the choice of colors and textures. The pool: Had a really tough time with this. The original idea of just a clear square did not work at all, even playing with the transparancies for a day. Instead, I had to kinda cheat and stick a plane in there. That's the reason for the wall in back. Because otherwise you see the rest of the plane. The bleachers: Looped squares and cylinders. The flags: This was a learning experience for me. I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I did it without asking anyone. I was a little surprised I got it. They're triangles that are rotated from a certain translation (which gives the ability to resize). Then the flags themsevles are roated and then they are rotated on the y axis a random amount (each one). Look closely at them and you'll see that they all point in different directions. This is espically obvious on the flags on the left side. I know, in the scheme of things other people have done much more sophisticated things, but I will now never forget how it was done. I like that. The cement: I love bumps. Small scale and high frequency works so well for what I wanted. The walls on the buildings are Khaki really really bumpy. Exactly what I wanted. The cement is just a bumpy square. The small border around the pool is a CSG'd box. The Goals: As well as the fence are the same thing. A whole lotta cyliners looped and then CSG'd so that they would fit. They're all just strung and resized to fit where necessary. The goals would have to be metal. Rope would be gone before the end of the game. Any questions please e-mail me.