TITLE: "Flip You?"
NAME: Michael J. Kolb
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: m-kolb@uiuc.edu
WEBPAGE: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~m-kolb
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mjkflipy.jpg
ZIPFILE: mjkflipy.zip
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: LViewPro and MSPaint. Yes, I said MSPaint.
RENDER TIME: approximately 24 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-75, scanner, pencil & paper

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Image of a quarter being flipped through the air.
Okay, I realize this has a rather loose grip on the
topic of flight, but IT'S ORIGINAL, and I pride myself
on the fact that I never use other people's models. 
(Everyone who downloaded a model of an X-29 take note!)
Besides, if you could see the image I WAS going to 
submit... : )


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The quarter's image was made by making a carbon-trace
of the surface of the quarter (using the aforementioned
pencil and paper -- sometimes those are useful too! : ).
The image was inverted and cleaned up using LViewPro
and MSPaint and converted to *.gif format. The result --
my first attempt at texture mapping. I think it turned
out pretty damn good, actually!  : )

The clouds are the same ones I used in the last 
competition -- back by popular demand. At multiple
requests, I have included the source this month, so next
month we can all have my clouds in all our images. : (
They've been re-tweaked to make them look a little more
transparent, but other than that the concept is the 
same. They took up the bulk of the rendering time.

The background is a gradiated sky sphere. These can really
make the difference in a scene.

If you want to talk about my image -- besides flaming me
for not having anything more related to flight : ) -- 
you can email me at:

        m-kolb@uiuc.edu

or check out my web page at:

        http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~m-kolb/

Thanks, and grade nicely!  : )