TITLE: Flamenco
NAME: Luis Galvez
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: Galvez@juno.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: flamenco.jpg
ZIPFILE: flamenco.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Picture Publisher 5.0, PovAni, and Moray.

RENDER TIME: 
    About an hour and a half.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133 32mb RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

     Flamenco dancing exist in a folk form and a version for stage     
performance. In either style, an performer must improvise, and      add a
personal interpretation to the dance. Originaly Flamenco      dancer were
accompanied by clapping singing, and stamping. Later,  guitars were added.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

     Dancer and guitarist were made mostly from spheres and cilinders, 
     and grouped in a way that head, arms and legs will rotate the              
                same way that normal human does.
     Guitar was created using height fields and cilinders for faster rendering.
     Image maps for guitar front was created using picture publisher and using
wood texture created by rendering wood.pov file.