TITLE: Broken

NAME: Juha Leppala
COUNTRY: Finland

EMAIL: relepp@sci.fi
WEBPAGE: n/a

TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: broken.jpg
ZIPFILE: broken.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.0 Windows for the creation and DOS version for
the final rendering.


TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch for the broken statue. Paint shop Pro for gamma correction.
All else done by typing.



RENDER TIME: 
    7 hours 57 minuntes 59 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix Pentium 150 Mhz with 16 Mb memory.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A hall lit by (3*20=)60 candles.Nice checkered marble floor
that reflects a bit.A broken statue (almost) in the middle of the hall.
Snow is raining (outside).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    In the beginning I had NO
idea what to make. So I started with the NICE floor. It took a while to figure
out to us brick with same sized sides instead of checker (I wanted a small
groove between the pieces of floor). Next came the walls. Then the balcony
in which i used #while loops. Now the hall was what it was. But it was
nowhere near art in that stage. It took me days to think what now.
We were going Gothic in history (in school) and i just loved the rosewindows
so i made one myself and even liked it :). I tried atmosphere to make the
lightrays visible but didn't like it so i made something else...
Snow! I used the rand(Seed) to make it random (ofcoz). Then i started making
candleholders and candles. I almost made a .inc file but i came to a wall
which made me forget the .inc. So i made just a regular part of the code.
The candles are randomsized and so are the flames which are made with halo
and whoa do they look good (i hope). Still there was missing the art part of
this scene. I started fooling around with sPatch (by Mike Clifton, but i hope
you already knew that :P) and started to make a leg. It was easy, but i
started with too few points in the first part so it didn't look astounding.
I WAS gonna make the rest of the body but the too few points problem
combined with the fact that im not that good with human anatomy made me
go with just a pair of broken legs. I made a pedestal where the legs were
and that was about it (after i put a texture on it and translated it).
Hope it does good...(it would be a mighty fine birthday present. I turn 16
November 2nd :) ).