EMAIL: Galvez@juno.com NAME: Luis Galvez TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Flamenco COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none 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.