TITLE: POV-Ray, Revealed!
NAME: Alex Vandiver
EMAIL: vandiver@tiac.net
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pov.jpg
ZIPFILE: pov.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Superpatch'd POV-Ray 3.1e

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, Rhino

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Late at night before the IRTC deadline, my coffee had long grown stagnant.  All
of the renders were coming out completely black.  It was impossible.  My eyes
feverishly glued to the computer screen, I felt a dawning realization.  This,
combined with the fact that there was *NO* way that a freeware renderer could
be so good, tipped me off.  Suddenly suspicous, I wielded my screwdrivers and
tore the monitor apart, to discover.. what?  The residence and office of P.
Owevee; Ray P. Owevee, in fact.  The secret conspiracy of the POV-Ray team was
at long last revealed..


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

With the exception of the actual monitor body, most of the scene is pure CSG. 
The monitor itself was modelled in Rhino.  Things like the papers and couch
were made in sPatch.  The rug inside the monitor is an image of the classic
rendered reflective sphere over a checkered plane.  Other objects were
shamelessly stolen and modified from the POV Objects Collection; The office
table, chair, and cabinet were Manfred Agne's, and the hatrack was Ken Tyler's.
 If you look closely at the images on the papers strewn across the desk, they
are copies of old IRTC winners.