Raytracing Competition -October 95


               Author: David Roman Kominek
                Title: The Mansion Backyard
Date:  start (design): October 1
      finish (design): Octover 19
            raytracer: POV-Ray 2.2
             modeller: mostly text editor but some
		       Moray and ctds data was used
		       but mostly a pencil, a ruler and paper!
               e-mail: lobo@matrix.infomatch.com

total rendering time: 2 days 3 hours 37 minutes
on a 75MHz Pentium  with antialiasing set to 0.1 and Jitter at 1.0

 Most of the idea for this house came from out of my head, some
help I got from a magazine. Involved in the development of this
scene was a lot of trial and error, since this is my first real
POV-Ray scene. Switching from Polyray ( which is what I've been
using before ) was really easier than I thought. 
 About the scene, it started with the pool. At first I thought 
of just making the water reflective and non-transparent but then
you wouldn't be able to see the floor tiles on the bottom of the 
pool. This was really hard to get just the right water texture
but after a couple days of manual tweaking to the texture I got
pretty darn close to the real thing ( maybe less reflection ?).
The beachballs was an idea I got from Dan Farmer's old pool.pov
scene. Then the rest was easy except for the stairs which I had
to make look in the same style as the rest of the railing. But 
what I like most about the scene is the area lighing. Even though
the grill-type covering over the walkway on the left is not 
visible the shadows well indicate the it's there on the wall.
That's about all I can say about the scene.

		Happy Tracing.,			

	David Roman Kominek
	Lobo@matrix.infomatch.com

	 							:)