EMAIL: jtomoso@eecs.wsu.edu NAME: John Tomoso TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Snowman COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~jtomoso RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 for WIN95 TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor Breeze 2.0 RENDER TIME: 35 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166/32 megs IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A snowman in the middle of a pine grove. This is the first image I created with POV-Ray. I'm still proud of it, even though it looks kinda dumb compared to the other images I've seen in past competitions. It looks cartoonish, but I couldn't figure out a better way to make the trees. It works out good though, because I grew up in Hawaii and I only saw snowmen in TV cartoons. I always wished I could make snowmen, and now I have, to some virtual degree. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The snowman was made completely of CSGs. It was programed by hand in the POV text editor. The hat is a SOR which was also hand typed. The sky was made with a sky sphere statement. I made the tree in Breeze 2.0 (acquired after the snowman had already been made), and then scaled and translated copies of it all over the place to give the illusion of a small grove of pines.