EMAIL: irtc@avaapgh.de
NAME: Hans-Peter Bock
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Abacus
COUNTRY: Germany
RENDERER USED: Blender 2.33a (Linux)
TOOLS USED: Gimp, Image Magick
RENDER TIME: five minutes
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1095.364MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A forgotten abacus is standing in a room right next to the wall. Right
in front of it lies a microcontroller which probably dropped from the
desk.

Isn't the Abacus compared to the microcontroller mindboggingly huge, if
you compare their functionalities?

This is my first image submission to IRTC!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The text on the microcontroller was taken from a photo and produced
with gimp as an image texture.

The scene is rendered with 4000x3000 pixels and rescaled to 1000x750
with Image Magick, because with the builtin oversampling of blender
the text on the microcontroller was unreadable. (Although it still is
unreadable at 1000x750.)

Some textures were taken from the Blender materials database:
http://www.geocities.com/pollythesheep/matlib_thumbs.html

The carpet texture was created as described in the Blenderman magazine
May/2004: http://www.blenderman.org/magazine/0405/index.html