TITLE: The Betrayal of Raytracing
NAME: Kevin Quinn
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: kevinq2000@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pipe.jpg
ZIPFILE: pipe.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray Modeller, sPatch, Ultimate Paint, Babel Fish

RENDER TIME: 
    2 Minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    533 mhz Intel Celeron, 64 Meg Ram, Windows 98 (First Edition)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Each competition period there is one particular idea which pops up several
times.  For example, in the "mystery" competition, several people did
variations on the theme of "board game."  I think the popular idea this time
will be variations on Rene Magritte's "The Betrayal of Images," an image of a
pipe with the inscription "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," or "This is not a pipe,"
and one of the more famous of the classic Surrealism images.  This is my
contribution.  The inscription reads, in English, "This is not a painting." 
And it's not, it's a rendering.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The pipe itself was modelled in sPatch, and then imported into Moray for the
texturing and the layout.  The picture is taller than it is wide to mimic the
layout of the original image.  This is my second image for this competition,
following "The Flight of Impossible Dreams."  Doing a variation on this theme
was the idea of my wonderful girlfriend, Jill, and I thank her for the idea and
for her feedback.  I didn't spend as much time on this picture as I might have,
and it shows in the detail on the pipe, though I was also purposefully not
modelling the pipe as accurately as I could have, because I was paying homage
to the original image, not trying to duplicate it.