TITLE: Solid Printer NAME: Matt Giwer COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: jull43@tampabay.rr.com WEBPAGE: http://www.giwersworld.org/artiii/ TOPIC: Speed COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: matterco.mpg RENDERER USED: povray 3.1g for linux compiled with gcc 3.0 TOOLS USED: Gimp for JPEG conversion and text addition, mpeg_encode RENDER TIME: 40+ hours HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1800XP, 256M RAM, linux 2.4.18-3 kernal IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Development of devices to create solid objects has been underweigh for several years. The work covers making field spares for the Army to home applications. Home models were promised "real soon" nearly three years ago. They will be the perfect match to the hobbyist renderer who has everything. Render time seems high but if I had known what I learned from this exericise it would be about half. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It is just another annoying commercial. It is also a debut of some models I have been working on. They have have different degrees of development. An early James Bot model appeared in my first animation entry. Cartman was in a recent stills entry. === To the children, a reminder. Etiquette This describes the intentions of the competition and what we hope to gain from it. c. The competition is not about winning. You do not have to be a professional, or even any good!