EMAIL: ahockman@freenet.columbus.oh.us
NAME: Andrew Hockman
TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Opening Night
COUNTRY: USA

RENDERER USED:
    POV-Ray 3.0  (ah, the grunt work)

TOOLS USED:
    Paintbrush- one texture
    Moray- to make it
    LViewPro- to convert ot
    HyperTerminal- to send it

RENDER TIME:
    1 hour, 14 minutes, 12 seconds.

HARDWARE USED:
    Pentium 120, 24 mb.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

As the lights come up, the audience sees a stage for the very first time.
It transports them into another world as only theater can.  The audience
instantly becomes a part of the story, as actors create the images of
students in a classroom.  This is theater... art in its original form.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This image was created for two purposes.  First, it is an artistic
expression of the sights and emotions associated with the opening night
performance of a high school play.  Second, it served as a template for
the creation of an actual stage, representing a classroom environment for
a production "Our Miss Brooks".

Almost everything in this picture was created using Moray.  Most objects
are created using primitives, although I used biezer patches extensively
for objects like the plastic chairs, their associated chair legs, and the
black curtain at the top.  Also, I tried to use superquadratics whenever
possible instead of cubes to give objects a sort of worn, rounded look.
After finishing the Moray model, I made some minor changes by hand in the
POV-Ray editing window.

I used Paintbrush for making one texture.  The rest of the textures used
were created by me in Moray, with two exceptions:  The chrome for the
chair legs, and the wood on the tip of the pencil (You can barely see it...).
I used the "ttf2udo" utility (packaged with Moray) to create the writing on
the board, and I used LViewPro to do gamma correction, addition of text,
and JPeG conversion.