TITLE: Short Stuff NAME: Noah Witherspoon COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: mookymaha@hotmail.com TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: shortstu.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g RENDER TIME: 0d 00h 02m 50s HARDWARE USED: Intel Celeron, 633 mHz, 64 megs of RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A small robot clutching a basketball stares up at these long, long legs surrounding it... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started out with the basketball, since I anticipated that would be the most difficult to create. It proved indeed to be, so I *cheated* a little and used Alan Holding's nice basketball image_map. The little robot I built from the feet up- the head was a pain to angle correctly. I had originally intended just to do legs of the taller robots, but realized that wouldn't work too well because of the reflection in the little guy's body, the shadows and the floor's reflection. So I just made really tall, lean 'bots, trying to give the impression off honed, powerful, and menacing machines. A key bit was the eyes- you can't see it in the final image, but the tall bots' heads are squashed spheres with a glowing green visor, supposedly making them a bit more menacing. I then had a fairly nice image, but I was still at a loss for a title. I asked some of my teachers, posted the question to the POV newsgroup, and asked as many other people as possible. A good friend of mine, Alan Sugar (a great writer too) finally suggested my current title, "Short Stuff".