TITLE: A pleasant surprise ! NAME: Chris Holtorf COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: lholtorf@nwlink.com TOPIC: A moment in time COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: bathrm1.jpg ZIPFILE: bathrm1.zip RENDERER USED: POVRAY TOOLS USED: POVRAY, Poseray, Rhino 3D, Corel Paint, Poser, WinJpeg, Moray RENDER TIME: 14 hours 26 minutes 6 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium P4, 2.4 gigahertz, 1 gigabyte of ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I just got home from a long business trip. As soon as I step in the door, I immediately realize three things - the kids' aren't home, the house is immaculate, and there is a sign taped to the wall with an arrow on it pointing upstairs. Following the arrow, I find another one pointing to the bedroom door. Stepping into the bedroom, I see a final arrow pointing to the bathroom door. Pausing briefly, I push open the door, just in time to see my beautiful wife stepping into the shower. . . DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: My wife and I like to take showers together, so the idea was an easy one to come up with and recreate. I used Poser to create and pose the female character and Poseray to convert her to POVRAY and add the textures. I used the same process for the slippers next to the tub. I used Rhino to create the towels, the soap dishes on the walls, the tub rack in the tub, bottles and bowl on the table. The Bonsai tree was created from the Maketree macro, the rock in the bowl from an isosurface with a fine green marble texture added to it. Moray glass texture was used on the shower glass panels. The wallpaper on the wall near the ceiling was made from a scanned image of a wallpaper sample I picked up from a hardware store. The towel texture also came from a scan, this time from a towel from my own bathroom. The picture on the wall is a digital picture I took not far from where I live. It shows a bridge over the Snohomish river delta at the lowest tide of the year in Puget Sound. The rest of the objects, textures and lighting was done in POVRAY. The zip file does not contain any of the textures, the picture nor the Poser character geometry. This was done to keep the zip file size down. Any and all comments are welcomed as I am fairly new to the artistic side of computer graphics.