TITLE: Karate kid
NAME: Iacopo Mochi
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: iacopo.mochi@tele2.it
WEBPAGE: http://www.arcetri.astro.it/irlab/staff/staff.php
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: karatekd.jpg
ZIPFILE: karatekd.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.6


TOOLS USED: 

    XnView to convert to jpeg        


RENDER TIME: 

    4h 59m 


HARDWARE USED: 

    Intel Celeron 1.300 



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The image is based on a famous movie quote where the main character stares at
his sensei who's trying to catch a fly with chopsticks:

        The Karate Kid (1984)

        Daniel: Wouldn't a fly swatter be easier?
        Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything. 


Obviously you need to be exceedingly quick (or lucky) to catch a fly in that
way.

The table is modeled on an image from a japanese-furniture magazine. 
I took the idea of the bamboo grove background (that is probably the worst part
of the image) from some Chinese martial arts movie.
The tea cup is modeled on my favourite one.
I was not able to resist the temptation of adding the media effect that suggests
the idea of a sunset through the bamboo, but maybe is too much...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


FLY
The body of the fly (all of them are actually the same) is an union of several
ellypsoids. The same goes for the wings that are made of a partially
transparent part and an opaque structure that models the wing veins.
The legs are made with an union of three sphere sweeps and several ellypsoids.

TABLE
The table isa simple CSG object with a standard wooden texture and a bit of
reflectivity added.

TEA CUP
Is the union of a couple of tori and a lathe object. The texture is a gradient
with turbulence added.

RICE
The rice is made with 50000 ellypsoids distributed and rotated randomly within a
paraboloid.

CHOPSTICKS (O-HASHI)
The chopstics are the intersection od a prism and a sphere. The prism is a conic
sweep of a smoothed square. (I think a simple sphere sweep would have done the
trick, but I was trying to obtain a more relistic effect)

BAMBOO
Modular shape obtained from the union of a sphere sweep and a torus.

GROUND
Bamboo leaves (CSG shapes) with random color in the range from yellow to green.
There are 70000 of them randomly scattered on a circle on the ground.