TITLE: A Bus with Wings
NAME: Bob Hayes
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobhayes1@aol.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.aol.com/graphicbob/gallery.html
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: abww.jpg
ZIPFILE: abww.zip
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Corel Xara, Truespace, WCVT2POV and Photoshop
RENDER TIME: About an hour
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 w/32MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
At one time air travel was something special.  Today it is like 
taking a bus with wings.  Don't get me wrong, I like buses (see my bus
web page at http://members.aol.com/busspot), but the glory days of air 
travel are a thing of the past, unless you fly the Concord.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
The bus was modeled by hand.  There are lots of CSG objects.  It took 
a long time, and it still is not finished (needs windshield wipers, 
brake lights, clearence lamps, and more enterior details).   The model 
is based on a New Flyer DLF-40 in terms of basic dimensions.  Because 
the topic is "Flight" I added the wings from a mesh of a Boeing 737.  The 
wings were positioned and scaled through trial and error.  The texture 
map used on the bus was created in Xara and exported as a GIF. I like 
Xara because it is vector based, so I can easily adjust and change 
things, and it is able to export an anti aliased image at any resolution.
Photoshop was used to adjust the pallet of the map and so I could see which
textures to assign to each index.