TITLE: Horror of a deadline
NAME: Gail Shaw
COUNTRY: South Africa
EMAIL: gshaw@monotix.co.za
WEBPAGE: http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: deadline.jpg
ZIPFILE: deadline.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-ray 3.1 Superpatch

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint shop pro (creating imagemaps, heightfields and conversion to
jpg)
            sPatch (Blade of the sword)
            Moray 3.1 (Pieces of paper)
            SplineEditor (Plate)

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hrs 37 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 450Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Anyone involved in computers for more than a few months knows the feeling.
The project deadline is fixed (if you're lucky, otherwise it is moving
forwards). 
For every bug fixed another two appear, and the client keeps phoning/emailing 
asking for new features and complaining that 'That's not what I asked for'
Late nights at the comuter become necessary, then the norm. You get tired,
irritated
and develop a short temper. Usually this only occurs for a few weeks every month
or so.
But what happens when the deadlines keep coming, the work never eases and the
problems
never go away?


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The image is mostly CSG. The blade of the sword is made of bezier
patches, modelled in sPatch, and the pieces of paper are also Bezier
patches modelled in Moray.  The Pizza box picture, calendar and screen
are all imagemaps, as are the writing on the pieces of paper and the CD
box inlays.  All the cables are sphere sweeps.  The guard of the sword
is a height field.

The keyboard was created by Robert Fremin and comes from a previous irtc
image of his (Imaginary worlds iirc). The books come from an include
file I found on the web a long time ago. The monitor and coffee cup I
modelled for previous scenes last year, the rest was modelled as needed.

I haven't included all the imagemaps due to the size of the zip file. If
anyone wants the missing gif files please mail me and I'll send them as
soon as possible.