TITLE: jPod
NAME: Steve Shoopak
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: velaki@aol.com
TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jpod.jpg
ZIPFILE: jpod.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    GIMP and Paint (for image maps and signature)

RENDER TIME: 
    9 minutes 46 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 2.20G 512M Toshiba Satellite Laptop


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


After thinking about what I would like to see on a shelf in a museum, I thought
of something common today, but might be rare in the future.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The shelf label was created in GIMP to be used as a heightfield.

The 3x5 card was designed for memory in GIMP as a layer, and then
the typewritten text was placed in a separate layer, the image
exported as a jpeg, and the file used as an image_map.

The shelf was orginally part of an ornate cabinet, but when I realized
that I was gonna zoom in to the shelf, I made a simple cabinet frame.
You can also see a simple wall behind it.

The jPod was created as a collection of CG, but to get the roundovers
I decided to use three merged base blocks, and then create the
roundovers with cylinders and spheres.

After rendering with Povray, I added my signature with Paint, and converted to
jpg
to keep the size down.