TITLE: "Self Conviction" NAME: Andrew Wilcox COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: awilcox@dreampeach.com WEBPAGE: www.dreampeach.com TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: selfconv.jpg ZIPFILE: selfconv.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Poser, PoseRay RENDER TIME: Approx. 6 days. HARDWARE USED: Pentium 800Mhz. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A cell in a zero-g environment. The lock is on the far wall with the red light. The key is a menger fractal, with random openings and closings, making it impossible to duplicate. The chain is broken after a fit of rage. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is my second scene using Poser. I wanted to add a barcode tattoo on the guys arm, but haven't figured out UV mapping yet. The chain is a simple macro using some sin and cos functions. The nearest chain bit, isn't really connected to the rest. I rendered the image on 2 differenct computers which decreased the render time to only 3 real days. Then I joined the parts in Photoshop. Why 6 days? Media plus area light. I like the effect. I like this scene much better run through a post-processing filter. I included what I consider to be the final image in the zip file just for reference.