NAME: Martin Magnusson COUNTRY: Sweden EMAIL: amarok@geocities.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9946/ TITLE: Kept In TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT RENDERER USED: POVray 3.01 TOOLS USED: Moray 2.02 RENDER TIME: Roughly 100 hours HARDWARE USED: Sun Alpha for the final trace IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's a late winters day. The sun is setting and all the children have gone home - just one naughty boy is still kept in... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The bike, the stand and the curtains were modeled with Moray, the snowball on the wall in Blob Sculptor, and the rest was written in POV for Windows' text editor. I learned a lot about textures and lightning when making this scene (at least the brick texture), especially from looking at the source code for Jaime Vives Piqueres' "Abandonada". Thanks a lot for making that image, Jaime. The wall is made out of a few thousand bricks, and since they have a crand finish they gave the anti alias algorithm quite a lot of work. The earth and the snow are blobs. At first I tried cutting out foot prints in the snow using various kinds of differences and intersections, but I realized that I simply didn't have time for that. An intersection with thousands of blobs and a few cylinders takes a *lot* of time. I also had a hard time trying to make the outdoor lightning look like a late afternoon, and the curtains looking like if they were lit from inside, but when I tried radiosity, they really came alive. This is by far the most computer tormenting scene I've created do far, I really wish I had a SPARC or something like that... With my P133 it would have taken a week or so to finish it, but fortunately I got some help, and Brian Robison (brobison@ecst.csuchico.edu, web page http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~brobison) did the final trace for me on ten Sun Alpha-computers. Thanks a bunch, Brian!