TITLE: Sorting the new coins
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmelem.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmelem.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Poser 3.0 Macintosh PPC

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1b4 Macintosh PPC
   DeskDraw (for drawing bumpmaps)
   MacPerl and Super3D (to create imagemap templates)
   Adobe Photoshop (to convert to jpg and add the credits)

RENDER TIME: 
    About 15 minutes, I think

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A man sorts his new gold, silver and copper coins

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Well, I had a much more ambitious image idea for elements, which would
have taken "elements" as meaning weather.  It was too ambitious, but
another idea occurred to me with about a week to go.
Coins traditionally are made of elements such as gold, silver and
copper (ignore bronze, it's an alloy).  So I incorporated that into
this Poser image, which has more scenic elements than any other
Poser scene I've done, and then I zoomed so far in you can't see that
anyway!
Most of the coins shown are imagemaps on thin cylinders, and come either
from scans of real coins, or from webpages which had pictures of coins.
An overhead view of the desk shows the coins more clearly.
The desk, chair and binder come from a CD of Poser objects produced by
Zygote Multimedia called "Parts & Props".
POV textures WhiteMarble and DMFWood6 were used to produce the imagemaps
used on the walls, steps, desk and chair.  POV 3.1b4 was also used to
create the imagemap for the only made-up coin, which features a teddy
bear (I had to include a token teddy bear somewhere!).  That's the coin
he's holding.
I intended to put the image's credits on the binder, but every time
I tried to wrap an imagemap round it, Poser crashed.  Ho-hum.
There's been a lot of discussion about what can and cannot be included
in publically-distributed Poser files.  Since the file includes the
Zygote objects mentioned above, it can't legally be distributed, and
is therefore not in the zip file.
The zip file does include the overhead view and the jpg version of the
teddybear coin.