EMAIL: iarmstrong@cix.co.uk NAME: Ian Armstrong TITLE: Three Little Maids TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. COUNTRY: UK WEBPAGE: http://www.cix.co.uk/~iarmstrong/ RENDERER USED: PovRay for Windows 3.02 TOOLS USED: SPatch, lparser RENDER TIME: 3h 6m HARDWARE USED: P120+64Mb+NT IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Three little maids from school are we". The three maids (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo) on their way to meet the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko in a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "The Mikado", played out on a futuristic 3D holographic display system. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The base unit and the Maid figures were created in Bezier patches using the excellent SPatch modeller. However, my attempts at modelling human parts were a disaster, so the head & hands are taken from those in nbphm01.zip (May-June 97) and nbmagic.zip (Jul-Aug 97) (these were created by NB, and are used with his permission - thanks). The 3D background is done with a simple cheat of cutting a hole in the wall and placing the pagoda behind it. Yes, I know all 3 figures have the same pose - I'm afraid I ran out of time. Inspiration and reference material came from the comprehensive Gilbert & Sullivan archive at http://diamond.idbsu.edu/GaS/GaS.html and specifically the Mikado section at http://diamond.idbsu.edu/GaS/mikado/html/mikado.html Here you can find not only plot summaries and other articles, but also lyrics and MIDI files of the songs; this could be the first IRTC entry you can sing along to ;-)