TITLE: Metal Puzzles
NAME: Caleb Stouter
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: floydspacerock@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray v3.6
TOOLS USED: none
RENDER TIME: 17 minutes, 15 seconds
HARDWARE USED: 2 GHz AMD Athlon XP, 736 MB RAM, running Windows XP
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A rendering of two metal puzzles that I have.  My goal was to try to make the image as realistic as possible.  The point of the cubic puzzle is to try to remove the small cube from the large one.  The spherical puzzle is made of six pieces that only fit together a certain way.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I measured the pieces of the puzzles, then made them in Povray using constructive solid geometry operations.  The large cube has an interior and 6 seperate face pieces, because each face needed to have a difference
3D texture orientation.  I worked on making the edges of the sphere puzzle parts rounded, but gave up.  The textures were all created by me, except for the marble on the floor, which is one of the built-in Povray marble textures.