EMAIL: gt2832b@prism.gatech.edu
NAME: Joshua Humphries
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 (recompiled with djgpp v2)
TOOLS USED: Adobe PhotoShop, DXF3DS, & POV23DS
RENDER TIME: 12:30:48
HARDWARE USED: PC 486DX4-120Mhz w/ 16MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Party / The Morning After
 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        I used Adobe Photoshop to create all the image maps for this image.
Most of the cylindrical objects (keg, tub, bottle, can, and table legs) were
originally modelled with Imagine 3.0 and converted by hand to POV-Ray unions
of cones and cylinders. The hose for the keg-spout was a spline-curve path in
Imagine and considerable more trouble was done to make it a union of spheres
in POV-Ray. The sunglasses and the spout for the keg were kept as triangle
data (saving the Imagine models as DXF and then converting them to POV-Ray
with DXF3DS and 3DS2POV). The curtain is a triangle mesh approxamating a
cosine curve to appear as wrinkles in the curtain.
 
        The first 293 lines of the image unfortunately took 9:57:26 to render
because I set it to trace overnight and the anti-aliasing threshold was set
to 0. I stopped it and continued it with threshold 0.3 (the default I believe
for POV-Ray 2.2) so the last 247 lines took only 2:32:52.
 
        I did not start on this image until about a week before the end of
August so the finished product is not remotely as detailed as it will be when
I complete it (which unfortunately will be too late for the deadline for the
IRTC).
 
        I chose this possibly somewhat unsuitable for mass consumption topic
because when I think of summer this is what I recall - I should clarify: When
I think of the summer of '96 this is what I recall.