TITLE: Family album
NAME: Jose Luis Celda
COUNTRY: Spain - Europe
EMAIL: jcelda@jet.es
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: albufam.jpg
ZIPFILE: albufam.zip
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: 
PovSb 0.99m PaintShopPro CorelDraw 6, CorelDream 3D and self made
modules

RENDER TIME: 7 hours 45 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 32Mb
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I have engaged the hard way to the nirvana of fotorealism, and there is my first
step. I want to dedicate it to my family, and specially to my wife, who was
supported with resignation the incredible lot of hours speaking at home with a
renderman rather than a human.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All textures are made manually, and the harder problem was the snow floating
into the snow-ball, and the cigarette smoke.

I've resold the first trick writing a bit of  Visual Basic 4.0  code to generate
a .inc file in POV source a  describing lot of small spheres. The programs
takes as parameters the radius, origin coordinates, density, iterativity and
scale in x,y,z coordinates. Then the program compute a cloud of point enclosed
in the spheroid described. (My friend graduated in physics was wisp a little
formula to me  :-) )

The smoke of the cigarette was made constraining a turbulent halo into a
cyclonic shape made of raw triangles modeled with CorelDream 3D.

Of course, the photos are scanned bitmaps. The photo of my daughter Irene was
retouched with PSP (to add the clouded sky background).

Comments are  A L W A Y S  welcome!