TITLE: "9 Men Interrupted"
NAME: Charles Fusner
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: cfusner@enter.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.enter.net/~cfusner
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 9meninte.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Leveller, Poser, POV-Ray

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A wistful reminder of summer which is just past here in the northern hemisphere.
A beach house with its
private beach. A board game, left half finished, is on the table, but afterall,
on a bright sunny day 
with a stretch of beach awaiting, other diversions can be found that are more
compelling.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Although the beach and figures were thrown together quickly in Leveller and
Poser respectively, 
everything else in the scene was crafted by hand for a change. (For a change
meaning that in
the past I've used Moray for anything more than a couple dozen primitives in one
place :) )
The figures and beach I'd actually considered making a photo background
originally (since they
are not really the focus of the scene), but in the end, I figured I'd just go
with some real 3D.

The finished result was not as complete or as photorealistic as I'd hoped, but I
get so little 
time for raytracing anymore, and ran this so close to the wire that I figured it
would be a waste 
not to submit anyway. 

The board game is a modern slant on 9 Men's Morrice (hence the title). In the
era when this
game was commonplace, it was typically played with lines scratched in the dirt,
and stones,
or buttons, or whatever a simple family could afford to make playing pieces out
of, but here
we have a formal board and pawn-like playing pieces, though the principal is the
same. Why this
game in particular? (Shrug) No reason. I found it in a search on the word
"games", and chose it
because it was something different from chess, checkers, or any of the other of
dozens of board 
games that will no doubt be used elsewhere in the contest.