TITLE: Caught in the act
NAME: Txemi Jendrix (J. M. Gonzalez-Pinto)
COUNTRY: Spain
EMAIL: tji@euskalnet.net
TOPIC: Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 2frogs.jpg
ZIPFILE: 2frogs.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        Persistence of vision for Windows 3.1g


TOOLS USED: 

        Moray 3.2, sPatch 1.51, Hamapatch, PovRay Editor, Picture Publisher
5.0.


RENDER TIME: 

Time for parse 0 hours 2 minutes 27 seconds
Time for trace 0 hours 49 minutes 5 seconds
Total time 0 hours 51 minutes 32 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 

        AMD Athlon 600 Mhz with 128Mb Ram.

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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Everything had been perfectly planned. The chance had opened a hole in the
window in 
form of a lost baseball ball. He waited until night fell. Then he ascended. Now
or never, 
tomorrow will be too late, he thougt to himself. After a lot of effort he was
about to loose 
the cover when he was surprised by a lantern's beam. They had caught him in the
act.

When I first thought about this topic, I was resolved to not make a standard
image of a laboratory,
so I gave myself time to let the inspiration come. Finally the idea of the
frogs' experiments in school,
as I remembered them in the movies and TV, became the number one in the row.
And if it colud be merged with a rescue operation?. Well, that changed the
perspective and this
is the result. I hope you like it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED:

        The scene was composed as it follows:

        First the recognitions: The frog is a sPatch model made by Anto
Matkovick. It's a freeware 
        model that you can find and download in his webpage
http://www.geocities.com/
        SoHo/Studios/7415/, aswell as other free models and some of the greatest
tutorials ever 
        made for sPatch.

        I took the frog (the original it's the one that is trapped in the jar)
and duplicated it. 
        Change the positions of arms, legs and head, and placed it with the jar
and its cover 
        to obtain the more accurated position of all of them. All these
operations were done with 
        sPatch and Hamapatch, even the exporting of everything to Moray.

        In Moray I builded up the scene. Most of the objetcs are CSG except for
the tray, that was 
        made with sPatch and the chloroform bottle that it's a rotational
sweep.

        There are some image maps that were made using Picture Publisher 5.0,
all exported 
        as tga with alpha channel. The dissection of a frog is a scanned image
from a Encyclopedia.
        The images are not stored in the zip file, but if you want them, send me
an email and i will 
        send them to you. I also used this program to add the my sign in the
final image and a little
        adjust of brightness and contrast.

        The scene only has one spotlight, and it has been rendered using
radiosity and antialiasing.
        
    That's all, folks.
    
   Txemi Jendrix Inspiriens '00

DESCRIPCION DE LA IMAGEN     

Todo hab_a sido perfectamente planeado. La casualidad hab_a abierto un agujero
en la ventana en forma 
de pelota de beisbol perdida. Espero hasta que se hizo de noche. Entonces subi_.
Ahora o nunca, ma_ana
ser_ demasiado tarde, pens_ para s_ mismo. Tras mucho esfuerzo estaba a punto de
soltar la tapa cuando
le sorprendi_ la luz de una linterna. Le hab_an pillado in fraganti.

Cuando en un primer momento pens_ en este tema, estaba decidido a no hacer la
t_pica imagen de un laboratorio,
as_ que me di tiempo para dejar que viniera la inspiraci_n. Finalmente la idea
de los experimentos con ranas
en la escuela, como la recordaba de las peliculas y la tele, se convirti_ en la
primera de la lista.
_Y si se pudiese mezclar con una operaci_n de rescate?. Bueno, eso cambi_ la
prespectiva y este es el
resultado. Espero que os guste.

DESCRIPCION DE COMO SE CREO LA IMAGEN:

        La escena fue compuesta como sigue:
        
        Primero los reconocimientos: La rena es un modelo de sPatch realizado
por Anto Matkovick. Es un
        modelo gratuito que puedes encontrar y bajarte de su web
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/7415/,
        as_ como otros modelos gratuitos y algunos de los mejores tutoriales
nunca hechos sobre sPatch.
        
        Cog_ la rana (la original es la que esta atrapada en el tarro) y la
dupliqu_. Cambi_ las posiciones de
        brazos, piernas y cabeza y la coloqu_ con el tarro y su tapa para
obtener la posici_n m_s ajustada de 
        todos ellos. Todas estas operaciones se realizaron con sPatch y
Hamapatch, incluido la exportaci_n a 
        Moray.
        
        En Moray constru_ a escena. La mayor_a de los objetos son CSG excepto la
bandeja, que fue hecha con 
        sPatch y la botella de cloroformo que es una rotational sweep.
        
        Hay algunos mapas de imagen creados con Picture Publisher 5.0, que se
exportaron como TGA con su canal 
        alfa. La disecci_n de la rana es una imagen escaneada de una
enciclopedia. Las imagenes no est_n en
        el archivo zip, pero si os interesan, mandarme un email y os las env_o.
Tambi_n us_ este programa para
        a_adir la firma a la imagen final y un peque_o ajuste del brillo y
contraste.
        
        La escena s_lo tiene una spotlight, y ha sido renderizada utilizando
radiosity y antialiasing.
        
     Eso es todo amigos.
     
   Txemi Jendrix Inspiriens '00