TITLE: Devout worshippers in church NAME: Peter Murray COUNTRY: England EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ TOPIC: Worship COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pdmhoney.jpg ZIPFILE: pdmhoney.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 for *ack*sptt*Windows /*POV-Ray 3.1g.r1 Macintosh PPC*/ TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro REFERENCES: Church Needlework by Beryl Dean, Batsford 1990, ISBN 0 7134 6405 4 Making Historical Costume Dolls by Jack Cassin-Scott, Batsford 1975 ISBN 0 7134 2899 6 Parish Churches by Hugh Braun, Faber & Faber 1970, SBN 571 09045 1 Easy to Make Teddy Bears by Jill Plank, Anaya Publishers Ltd 1993, ISBN 1 85470 030 8 RENDER TIME: Total Time 0 hours 53 minutes 26 seconds (3206 seconds) Time for parse: 0h 0m 4s (4 seconds) Time for trace: 0h 53m 22s (3202 seconds) (with anti-aliasing 0.3) HARDWARE USED: Dell Intel Pentium III external speed 100 MHz 128Mb /*Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop*/ DISCLAIMER: No religion is implied or should be inferred from this picture. Really. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Churchgoers paying slightly less attention to the service than the priest would like them to. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I told someone this round's topic was "Worship" and she asked what teddy bears worship... and I thought maybe it was honey.... So here's a church where bears worship the discoverer of the holy honeypot. I built the church pews (seats) first, scaled to fit the bears, then built the church around the pews. This may not be a good theoretical way to do it, but it made sure everything fitted. Then I changed the bear macro I've been using to allow more varied faces, and built up a cast of different bears, and made clothes for them, starting with the priest. The priestly clothes are actually based on a bishop's robes. Many of the T-shirts have designs on, which have come from various sources. If you saw the human figure I've been working on, which last appeared in the September-October 2000 round "Laboratory", you'd know why I use teddy bears instead... the human figures aren't "ready for prime time" :-) . After making clothes from bicubic_patches, I couldn't face another patch, so the altar and its cloth coverings are made from boring old CSG boxes, spheres, cylinders and cones. I used the picture of Bosie the bear to make a stained-glass window, but I'm not happy with the way the crackle texture came out (it was meant to represent the broken-up way that old stained glass was used to make an image). Media was used to scatter the light and improve the lighting in the shadows, but I don't understand it as well as I thought I did. I need to do more experimenting with media. For some reason, the glass seems to be opaque, despite basing the texture statements on ones I've used before. Previously though, I've used JPGs, PICTs and GIFs for transparent imagemaps, and this time I was using a PNG, as the PC version of POV doesn't accept JPGs. After some more detailing of the church's roof, I filled the pews with "placeholder" bears wearing a T-shirt, and then worked through, replacing each of them with one of the existing bears (see congregation.inc). Then I rendered the scene as a whole, and corrected the directions they were looking in. Then I added more details to the windows and doors, did another full-sized render, and decided not to overwork the image any further. Oh, and I didn't include the credits on this one, although I did make a plaque with them on, because there wasn't anywhere good for the plaque to go. Zip file contents (including most of the testing code, to make sure I don't accidentally break the rest of the code): pdmhoney.pov tedbearm.inc beartex.inc bearlist.inc congregation.inc bearchurch.inc nothing.cdf tshirt.cdf dress2.cdf bishop.cdf lildress.cdf weskit.cdf but not the others, as they're too similar to each other. irtclogo.png ukflag.png bosie.png but not the other images, for copyright reasons.