TITLE: Silver Ghost NAME: Larry Boston COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: larryboston@dialmaine.com WEBPAGE: none TOPIC: Great Inventions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION JPGFILE: lbgiauto.jpg TOOLS USED: Corel Painter 6, Paint Shop Pro-7, Microsoft Paint,Objpov RENDER TIME: 14 min HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM III 733, 512 RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Several years ago I took a trip to Novia Scotia on the Cat. There were a lot of Rolles Royces and Bentlys aboard. I didn't see any 1909 Silver Ghosts, but here were some impressive vehicles. I decided to make the Silver Ghost because I thought it would be easier that some other cars because of its straight lines, but it wasn't as easy as I thought. I think I will take a more organized approach in the future to avoid redoing large portions of the major objects. Since I have been using POV for quite a while I should know better,but I must be a slow learner. The Auto must be a great invention, since I don't like horse and walking across country doesn't appeal to me, even though I walked a lot when I was young. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The Silver Ghost was constructed using CSG except for the hood ornament that is a converted poser object using objPOV. The driver is also converted from Poser to POV using objPOV. The stone wall texture was created using a POV file using differences between boxes and prisms to cut out rocks from superellipsoids. The resulting image was used as an image map. MS Paint was used to cut and paste some of the stones that didn't look good. Corel Painter 6 was used to convert the TGA files and alter the brightness of the TGA files. The sky was made to look like a watercolor by applying crand to a nearly transparent sky_sphere inside the sky_sphere with clouds. The sidewalk was created using a while loop to translate boxes and vary the color. The trees were made using Gilles Tran's tree macro. The small portion of grass in front of the wall was made using LawnMaker from Uwe Gleiss.