TITLE: Beginning Magic 101
NAME: Tetsuto "Teddy" Nishiyama
COUNTRY: Japan
EMAIL: tnishi@ari.ncl.omron.co.jp
TOPIC: magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: magic101.jpg
ZIPFILE: magic101.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Paintshop Pro, Povray for Windows

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour 41 minutes 32 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway P5-166

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Magic 101: This is an image showing that there's a bit of real magic
for everyone. Even beginners just starting out from a book.  I thought
that 1:01 a.m. was an appropriate time for a bit of this magic to
happen.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Considering that this is my first attempt at raytracing,I really didn't
do anything technically spectacular.  Just tried a number of the
examples in the Povray and Moray tutorials and proceeded to create
the first idea...as well as the most challenging for me...the lamp.

This lamp is a fully functional lamp in that it swivels where it's
supposed to. :)  One flaw though is that it doesn't have a light bulb
...but it doesn't show in this particualar image so I guess it's ok.
lot's of CSG's. I figure that it wasn't too bad for my first original
object.

The beginner magic book is a set of about 24 bezier patches and I
figured that I could save myself a bit of extra work by making the
book paperback...as well as the fact that I couldn't figure out how
to do a good hard back book with my limited knowledge.  Some people
may recognize the image on the cover.  It's the logo for a game
company that produces adventure games and the "author" is one of the
characters in a particular game that I really liked.  This image was
created by scanner and Paintshop Pro. 

The 10,000 yen bill (about $90.00) is just another bezier patch.

The clock is the CASIO that wakes me up every morning so I won't be
late for work...just a combination of CSG's and imagemaps.

The photo is of my wife and I during our honeymoon.  I thought it
would be fun to see myself in a make believe world.  I had a bit of
trouble with the glass cover but I think it came out better than
I thought.

For the "magic", I used a transparent upside down cone and attempted
a strange halo...I actually wanted to get a glittery effect but I
just couldn't figure out how, so I resorted to using a halo instead.

Like I said, nothing technically interesting...

Oh, but speaking of interesting the image that I was ORIGINALLY going
to enter had just a normal and boring camera angle and this was
before I took a look at some of the other entries from the past.
All I can say is "Wow!".  I figured that I needed to make the image
a bit more interesting with what I had so I figured that giving the
camera a bit of a wide angle would make the image just a bit more
interesting.

(In the zip file I only added the files for the model and none of
the image maps to save space.)

Any comments and advice would be greatly appreciated...Thanks!  I
hope I see everyone again next round.  :)