EMAIL: thomas_alun@lineone.net
NAME: Alun Thomas
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:   Suburban Worlds
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: None
RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.5 beta
TOOLS USED:

	Warp's mesh compressor & Chris Colefax's PCM macros
		(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/pcm.html)

	BlobMan (http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/HoustonGraph/POV-Ray/index.htm)

	Petibonium (http://www.wozzeck.net/images/petibonum/index.html)

	Calimax Modeller (don't have URL handy)

	Giles Trans' MakeTree include files. (don't have URL handy)

	SPatch (used for the T-Rexs)

	ImageForge (for conversion to JPEG)

RENDER TIME: about 11 hrs
HARDWARE USED: 400Mhz P-II
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	They say every man's home is his castle, but what about his
	garden ? It could be a whole different world...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I'm out of time again !
(I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that pesky
short month!)


Houses, Fences, Garages - hand edited CSG

Hedges - a hand-built box mesh as the basic shape, then
	run through Warp's mesh compessor to generate a .PCM file.
	Finally used Chris Colefax's hair macro to give the box a layer
	of fine green hair (from a distance, it looks like a passable hedge)

the topiary T-Rexes - similar to the hedges, except the original mesh is
a DXF exported from s-patch, and the default PCM hair didn't look right, so
I replaced the hair object with a small sphere.

Children - Blob People (with custom costumes/props)

Toy Pistols, cardboard box fortress, garden gates, greenhouses.
	- fairly simple CSG, built with Calimax then edited
	for use as an include file.

Trees - made with Giles Trans' MakeTree include files. These
are actually the same as the tree I used in my "Temple" image in
the Spirit Of Asia round.

GreenHouse plants - originally intended to be tomatoe plants, but
aren't quite right (no tomatoes for one thing!) but at least they make
the greenhouses look like there's something in them.

background city - a last minute rush. a loop scatters a set of
randomly sized/shaded boxes with a quilted normal pattern applied
in an attempt to suggest windows - comes out looking like something
knocked up in the 1960's...


Overall, I'd have to regard this as unfinished :-(
There's a lot more stuff I'd like to have added to the gardens
(vegetables growing in the garden with the green houses, someone
on a ladder trimming the t-rexes, etc. ....) also, the houses
could use some more work (satellite dishes, TV arials, curtains...)

I am quite happy with the overall look of the image though.

Thanks,
Alun.