EMAIL: Sonya_Roberts@geocities.com NAME: Sonya Roberts TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright. 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 TITLE: School Lunch (What's Next, Dreaded Veal Cutlets and Krafp Dinner?) COUNTRY: Canada WEB PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Soho/Lofts/1022 http://webhome.idirect.com/~sonyar 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