Submission for The Internet Raytracing Competition for the month of August
Topic:  "Alien Worlds"


File name:           cr-2door.jpg (800x600 24-bit JFIF)

Picture title:       Two Doors

Submitted on:        27 August 1995

Submitted by:        Chip Richards (chipr@email.niestu.com)

Other files:         cr-2door.txt (this file), cr-2door.zip (POV files and
                     image maps)

Distribution:        All files Copyright 1995 by Chip Richards, all rights
                     reserved (but negotiable!)


Rendered on:         Intel 486 DX2/50 running Linux 1.2.8 (Caldera Network
                     Desktop)

Rendering time:      4 hours 48 minutes, approximately

Rendered with:       Persistence of Vision Raytracer Ver 2.2linux386 (with
                     Sced "transform" patches)

Other software:      Sced (modelling), XFig 2.1pl8 (sketchpad), NetPBM tools
                     (QRT --> PPM conversion), XV 3.10 (PPM --> JPEG
                     conversion)


For this, my second entry, I wanted something a little closer to home, and a
lighter subject (both in attitude and illumination) than my first entry.  For
anyone who doesn't think they're looking at alien worlds, try spending ten
minutes in the "wrong" one.  You'll truly know how an alien feels.  (You think
they treated "The Blob" badly?!)

The entire image is comprised of primitives and CSG objects, created and
placed with Sced, with the single exception of the door "handles", or
push-plates.  Those are wireframe objects, keyed in as an OFF fileset by hand
from a rough pencil-and-paper-and-xfig sketch.  The Sced scene file is over
400kb, due to some unfortunate fumbling on my part.  The wood textures are
from the POV library, and the ceiling is a barely-modified "Cork".