EMAIL: a.vandekraats@student.utwente.nl

NAME: Araldo van de Kraats

TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: The Imaginary Number World

COUNTRY: The Netherlands

WEBPAGE: home.student.utwente.nl/a.vandekraats/ (don't go there, it's almost empty)

RENDERER USED: POV-ray for Windows 3.1

TOOLS USED: 	Moray 3.1 (the model of the car), 
		Photo Paint 6 (image maps and height fields)

RENDER TIME:  26 minutes, 11 seconds

HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 333Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

About ten thousand light-years away, there's a little planet called 'The Imaginary Number 
World'. Only four people live on this planet: Mr and Mrs Complex and their two sons. Every
day Mr Complex goes to work with his shiny sport car. He starts his car, drives it around
the corner and takes a wormhole at the first opportunity. The sons will leave slightly
later after the schoolbus appears at the wormhole. Mrs Complex will take care of the house
and the garden, meanwhile enjoying the beautifull view of the vulcano 'Mathes'.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

When I started working on this image, I took an cylinder and a sphere, for the 'planet'.
But I soon found the round shape of the planet very annoying. Therefor I used a flat planet.
I took a true type font with an 'i' that looked like the imaginary number 'i': 'SchneidlerAmaTBla
italic' and sticked an image map on it.
Next, i put some objects on the planet: a nice house, a 'shiny red sport car', a vulcano,
some road, a bridge and a wormhole.
For the house I used an photo as example. It has some imagemaps taken from the photo on it, 
because I didn't have time enough to render the doors and windows. I also used an imagemap 
for the car. The car is a based on a spline and is modeled with Moray.
The wormhole is a sphere with an spherical mapped media in it.
When everything was put onto the world, I finish the image by putting some height fields onto 
the planet: for some hills, a walk in the garden and another one for a pond.

NOTES:

- 	I apologize for all the grammatically incorrect sentences.
- 	This is my first entry. 
- 	I started too late (because I didn't know there was en IRTC before)(15 February), 
	so it isn't really finished. Some things that should be better: the vulcano (it does not
	match verry well with the grass and it's ugly), the pond (some reed and water instead 
	of solid a blue	slice). Also the background is very black. It could use some 
	stars/moons/suns.
-	I only used tga files for the image maps and height fields. I converted most of them
	to jpg files to make the inumber.zip file a bit smaller.