EMAIL: Sonya_Roberts@geocities.com NAME: Sonya Roberts TOPIC: Arts&Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright. RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.02 watcom.Win32[Pentium Optimised] TOOLS USED: Photoshop to make height field for mountains, and to convert the final image to jpg. "boards" plugin to create floor for room. RENDER TIME: 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 2 seconds for 316 objects HARDWARE USED: Pentium Pro 200 w/64 meg memory and Matrox Millenium 2mg Graphics Card TITLE: ...But Is It Art? COUNTRY: Canada WEB PAGE: http://webhome.idirect.com/~sonyar IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I recently joined the IRTC Admin team as one of the "extended" members who lurks in the background making occasional advisory noises, while Chip, Bill, and Micheal run the real show out front. I decided it was my duty this round to carry on a fine IRTC Admin tradition - the rendering of a "WinSeat" image. Of course, being me, I have to do it better...bigger...more computationally intensive... I was thinking of doing something real complex with it...but decided to try the "less is more" approach this time around. Well, that and I almost ran out of time to get in an entry this round! But for a good reason this time, not just procrastination...I finally landed my first "after college" job, working at a small gaming company, and the job is consuming pretty well all of my free time...and I'm loving it! "You know you have the perfect job when you voluntarily go in on Sundays, just so you can play at working some more...." Anyone wanting to find out more should go check out our company web site, at www.pseudointeractive.com - web graphics by me, using POV. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I made the initial "winseat" image as a simple scene of snowy-capped mountains visible through a window located just behind the left wing of an airplane. A couple of engine housings are visible along the trailing edge of the wing. I then used this image as an image map, added a frame, threw it on a wall, pointed a couple of lights at it, added a sculpture, some nice atmospheric effects, a wooden floor, and wooden ceiling beams. Voila! WinSeat lives again! Pretty well everything in this image is a simple primitive, with the exceptions of the julia_fractal (a complex primitive!) and the height_field mountains. I've included the source for both the WinSeat image and the final image. Both images are portrait orientation.