TITLE: Contemplating an Entry
NAME: Justin Whitton
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
EMAIL: justin.whitton@bigfoot.com
WEBPAGE: www.bigfoot.com/~justin.whitton
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jw_break.jpg
ZIPFILE: jw_break.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.02, MS-Word'97, Paint Shop Pro, sPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    approx. 3hrs for final image

HARDWARE USED: 
    P-II 266

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        Whilst working on an image for the IRTC, our digital artist
takes a break and contemplates his image whilst having a drink of
water.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        The idea for this image occurred as defined in the IMAGE
DESCRIPTION. I was going to do something else with the water-pot
image for my IRTC Water entry, but it wouldn't gel.

         -Image on the piece of paper-

        A work-mate of mine wanted a raytraced paintbrush for a web
site he was working on. The paintbrush was created in sPatch (this
was my very first object in sPatch, I wasn't going to push the
program to it's limits :-), and imported into POV-Ray 3.02. The
water pot was then created as a CSG containing spheres and torii,
with a halo used to create the "cloud" of paint coming from the
brush head.

         -Contemplating an Entry-

        Table surface is a combination of three textures via a
onion texture_map. Two of the textures are wood textures with turb
and two repeat warps and the third is a simple pigment with metallic
specular finish.

The image_map for the coaster and paperweight was created in
MS-Word'97 WordArt, pasted into Paint Shop Pro and exported as a
large (1024x1024) gif. The coaster is a cylinder with the image
mapped to its upper surface, and the paperweight is a coaster with
a hemi-sphere of glass CSGed on top.

The glass (including water) is a CSG of superellipsoids and planes.

The zip file contains POV-ray source files for both images and the
gif for the coaster.