TITLE: *Gasp* this one's nasty! NAME: Peter Murray COUNTRY: England EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ TOPIC: History COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pdmirtch.jpg ZIPFILE: pdmirtch.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1d Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: older versions of POV-Ray, Adobe Photoshop to convert the image to JPEG, MPW Shell editor to edit include files. GraphicConverter to convert the JPGs to PNG for image_maps. RENDER TIME: 1 hours 23 minutes 5.0 seconds (4985 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop DISCLAIMER: No bears were hurt much in the production of this image. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A visitor to a gallery finds a scary image. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Lots of ideas occurred to me on the theme of "History", most of which were (yet again) too ambitious. The idea of a personal history of my IRTC entries occurred to me, and gradually turned into this scene. Originally I just had one bear looking at the past images, but then it occurred to me that it would be better if he was shocked by the Magic entry, and was calling over another bear to see the shocking picture. An earlier rendering of this image was scaled down and edited to provide the unfinished version of this picture used twice elsewhere within the picture. I exaggerated the partly-rendered line for effect. An attempt to use POV's focal blur to throw the foreground carpet out of focus didn't work - the scene seems to be too small, as the pictures and bears were also affected. So I put the leaflet in instead to cover up some of the carpet. I keep meaning to include the picture credits within the scene instead of adding them later. This is only about the second time I've remembered to do it. The leaflet is made from two box{} elements and lots of text{}. I didn't have the energy to model the pages as bicubic patches, and that would have made the text{} elements harder to model. Textures are mostly based on those in textures.inc or on textures I've used in past entries. There are six ceiling lamps in the scene, which provide all of the light. The images are mounted behind glass, which is why you can see reflections on them. Yes, this really is my twelfth IRTC entry. I know, I ought to be improving faster. The zipfile includes: The POV source file. The include file with the macro that draws the bears. I'm not sure if it's the most-recent version of that file, but it is the one that was used to render this image. The include file that draws a framed picture. A preliminary view of the layout of the room. The zipfile doesn't include: All the past images (they'd use up too much space). The half-rendered version of this one (it's just this entry edited).