TITLE: The Lights Are On...
NAME: J H
EMAIL: jhu@sdf.lonestar.org
TOPIC: Absence
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: absence_.jpg
ZIPFILE: absence_.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5c

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser, Poseray, Arbaro, GIMP

RENDER TIME: 
    10 hours (36006 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 64

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The lights are on, but nobody's home... except for the cat...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This is a fairly simple image really. The building and is made with standard
objects: boxes, spheres, and cylinders. I made a rounded-box macro to save
on typing (not that it matters since my keyboard's keys are all worn out
anyway). Objects inside the room include a small couch and light, which are
also just CSGs.

The cat is a Poser cat and exported to a Povray mesh. I made his eyes have an
ambient of 1 so they look brighter.

The shadow of the trees was made by making three palm trees in Arbaro and
placing them further away from the scene (they aren't even textured since I
just wanted the shadows).

I then used a small parallel area light to get the fuzzy shadows of the trees
as well as sharp shadows of the windows.

That's it. Easy, right? And yet it still took this long just to get it the way
it is now.