EMAIL: dick@buckosoft.com NAME: Dick Balaska TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: NurserySchool COUNTRY: USA (Connecticut) WEBPAGE: http://www.buckosoft.com/ RENDERER USED: Povwin 3.01 TOOLS USED: Corel Photo-Paint 7 - to trim the ostrich, Povwin editor - All models/textures typed by hand. MSDEV - There are 15 files in nschool. This was an attempt to create a Makefile. Netscape 3.01 - to surf for models. LView - for jpeg conversion. Calculator - to calculate sin/cos for the wires. RENDER TIME: 54 minutes, 29 seconds HARDWARE USED: Dual PPro/200, 128MB Ram, 4.3GB Ultra Fat Hairy SCSI Imagine 128 @ 1600x1200x65536, Princeton Ultra 20 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "After Hours at The Home Depot". The inhabitants look as though they're afraid they'll suffer the same fate as their cousins (The milled lumber) and are plotting their escape. If an ostrich can fly, then so can a tree! On a shelf it looks as if some of Sonya's Alien Cactii have been captured and sold into slavery as house plants. Scott A. Gish's palm trees stand guard in the doorway. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: School. hmmm. I had already decided that no matter what the topic, and no matter what i trace, It's gotta have a Sonya Tree. OK, now what. How about a school of trees. What are they studying... To learn to fly! Well, since i'm using Other People's Models, i might as well snarf as much plant life as i can, which ended up being Sonya's Cactii and Scott's palm trees. I had fun mailing everyone (Scott, Sonya and Xavier) asking for permission to use their models. I didn't tell them they were part of a managerie. :) I learned a lot about working with wood. ;) Basically, one must delay defining the wood texture until the object is created. In order to get each board to have a different grain, the whole palette of 2x4s is declared in one loop. My wife says that if i loved my 2 year old son, i'd make a "beep beep car". These little forklifts troll around Home Depot and watching these go up and down the aisles are the highlight of any visit to the store. The logo on the "beep beep car" was made by Marlene for our web page. I learned to love the rand() function. Every board has the texture translated so that they aren't the same; which looks horrible. Each cactus is rotated and nudged out of line. I learned to hate sin()/cos(). OK, when you rotate an object, you rotate it by degrees. The two wires are cylinders and chopped torii. The one on the saw i did with a calculator. The one on the projector i decided to make programaticly so that i could move and tweak its position easily. This would be cool. After 6 hours, when i started doubting my basic trig knowledge, i noticed in the help file that sin() takes its parameter in radians. (Insert sound of head banging keyboard here) There are bigger versions of this pic at http://www.buckosoft.com/gallery/raytrace/nschool/ This is my first entry in the Internet Raytracing Competition. There are 67557 objects in this picture! CREDITS: ostrich.jpg - Xavier Manget's winning entry from the IRTC round "Flight". Used with permission. Tree 2.0 - Sonya Roberts. Freeware. Cactus - Sonya Roberts. From her entry "cul101" from the IRTC round "Space". Used with permission. Palm Tree - Scott Gish. From his entry "crash" from the IRTC round "Space". Used with permission. LOCAL IDIOMS: The Home Depot - is a big ass store that sells everything for the construction and maintenance of homes. Nursery school - is where busy moms send their 4 year old children (before Kindergarten) Nursery - is a place to buy trees.