EMAIL: H.A.vanderMeiden@twi.tudelft.nl
NAME: Rick van der Meiden  
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE : Pips the Puppet.
COUNTRY : Netherlands
WEBPAGE : http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/~tw554156/index.html
RENDERER USED: povray 3.02 DOS
TOOLS USED: Deluxe Paint (background), 
            Graphics Workshop, L-view (conversion),
            EDIT.COM (everything)
RENDER TIME: 26 hours, 47 minutes.
HARDWARE USED: Intel 386/25 !
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
   
   A wooden puppet on strings, with a silly long nose and a ridiculous huge
   smile, jumping itself senseless. And it's dressed in shirt and shorts. 
   (can't have naked wooden puppets running around now, can we?) It's 
   standing in a stage like scene, with colored lights, and a cardbord 
   landscape and stage curtains behind.
   
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

   Like this : Type.. render.. frown... type.... type... render... grunt..
      render... wait.... render... wait... wait... mumble... type... etc.

   Some comments on parts of the scene : 
      - The cloth on the puppet are made of blobs. It took a lot of work
        to fit them properly.
      - Peter has 300 strands of hair. He should almost bald then, right ?
      - He was build like a hierarchical structure, which made it rather
        tricky to make the strings hang vertical. 
      - There are four spotlights, one is an area-light as well. 
      - The background landscape was drawn in Deluxe Paint and is simple
        on purpose. It was meant that way. Okay ? Fine. 
      - The JPEG image looks terrible.