TITLE: Ni Idea
NAME: Jaime Vives Piqueres
COUNTRY: Spain
EMAIL: jaime@ctav.es
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1090.htm
TOPIC: SCHOOL
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: niidea.jpg
ZIPFILE: niidea.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.01 (C) POVTeam.

TOOLS USED: 
    Paintbrush((C) ZSoft), Qedit((C) SemWare), TXT2POV(no-(C)).

RENDER TIME: 
    aprox. 8 hours, for 800x600 +a.

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC 486-100.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Last night before the exam, and I had no idea.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  POV and INC files typed in Qedit (text editor).
  GIF files for maps and HF's painted in PaintBrush (paint program).
  JPG conversion with Graphic WorkShop (not registered yet).

      I started this round scene without much enthusiasm. The topic didn't
  inspire a great idea to me, and I tried a simple and not very original
  composition, but the result, after a lot of work, is more artistic than
  I expected...

      A book is open at page with the exam chapter, but and I'm listening
  some music in my desk combo, thinking about something more interesting.

      All objects in scene are created by hand specially for this round,
  except for the closed books, that were previously used in other scene,
  but enhanced. Nothing special : HFs, image and bump maps, CSG, and lots
  of trial-and-error to place objects. There are, of course, some nice
  details, but some extra attention is required to notice them.

      I used TXT2POV to generate the combo trade mark and the sign. It's a
  small command-line utlity I wrote recently to create raytraced texts for
  simple purpouses. Please, email me if you want to test it: it's free, it's
  no-(C). The files LOGO.POV/.INC and FIRMA.POV/.INC are generated using
  this program from the source txt, with the same name, in a few minutes.

      The calculator is done with a combination of a HF and a material_map,
  which seems to be a very good method to do such type of objects. The
  closed books were textured also with material_map. Don't search for this
  titles in any bookshop: they are imaginary books prologued by Stanislav
  Lem, my fav SF writer. But, unfortunately, I don't know the title of the
  book in other edition than the Spanish edition : "Un valor imaginario".
  My simplest translation to english can be "An Imaginary value".

      The open book was created with a HF rather than a prism, due to my
  fear to not finding the exact shape. Another HF is used to do the shape
  for the texture of the side of curved pages, hand made in Paintbrush.

      The Halo for the bulb is not a lens flare or photografic effect, I
  preferred to do an optical effect like in direct vision. It consists of
  hundreds of thin cones with ambient and filter. The lamp uses 2 lights,
  one spotlight for direct and (simulated) specular lights, and another
  one for the ambient light.

      The rest of objects in scene are done with CSG of simple shapes with
  POVRay default textures, some of them slighty modified. And that's all!
  Come to my image and enjoy it! (And, of course, vote for it!)



                                      Jaime Vives Piqueres (jaime@ctav.es)

  P.D: Give me some feedback about corrections and improvements: this image
  is no yet finished!