TITLE: d equals r times t
NAME: Phil Hall
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tholal@bga.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.realtime.net/~tholal
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dequalrt.jpg
ZIPFILE: dequalrt.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.0 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    POV 3.0 for Windows

RENDER TIME: 
    ~ 3 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-133, 32 megs of RAM, 4 meg video card

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        A spaceship, made of pencils (see long description below) journeys into
the nebula of
math.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        When the topic for this month first came out, the only thing I could
think of was pencils.
So, I made a pencil. One version was unsharpened, the other had a point. After
that I drew a blank
for almost 2 months. I messed around with different textures but nothing
clicked. I found the topic
as uninspiring as real school. Then, last week, I remembered how I used to draw
spaceships and such 
in my textbooks when I got bored during class. So, somehow, out of that I cam up
with a pencil
spaceship. The main body consists of seven unsharpened pencils. The point from
my sharpened
one was removed and enlarged to form the nose. The engine struts are made of
many small pencils
and the engines themselves are pencils that have been widened and squashed. I
tried a regular Yellow
texture on the ship but it was too boring for me. I like using interesting
textures. For this picture
I used a two-layer brick pattern for the ship. The rocket flames came out pretty
well on the first try and 
needed very little adjustment. I wanted to put a nebula in the background since
I've been experimenting 
with the halo feature lately. I also decided to throw a few math terms and
formulas out there
in an attempt to fit in with the theme a little better. The name was decided
when I was adding in
the distance formula when my cd player happened to play 'Distance Equals Rate
Times time" by
the Pixies. This coincidence was too much to ignore.