TITLE: Wanna book...
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmbooks.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmbooks.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.0 Macintosh 68K

TOOLS USED: 
    DeskDraw (2D working drawings)

RENDER TIME: 
    Total Time 2 hours 0 minutes 55.0 seconds (7255 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh Centris 650

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A teddy bear looks up at the books out of his reach

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Yes, I'm using the teddy bear again.  I had various ideas for this round,
most of which involved the bear anyway.  This one was meant to have the
bear lying reading a book for entertainment, with the books in shelves
behind him symbolising the arts.  However, the bear as modelled was so
small, he wouldn't have been able to reach the books, so I posed him
looking up at the books out of his reach.  (Awww....)

The teddy bear was modelled for the March-April contest round; the fur
texture has been changed since his previous appearances.  He's in shadow
here, so he's not at his best.
The other objects were built for this round.  The shelf units were based
on a furniture catalogue I'd just been looking through.  The wood texture
isn't quite right, but it's not that far off the finish of the real items.
Of course, the camera angle I used means you can hardly see the shelves!
So the zip file includes an earlier small render showing them.
The carpet and wallpaper were meant to be cliched patterns chosen by someone
who wasn't going to spend much time in the room.
I wrote an .inc file and finally used rand() for the first time in order
to fill the shelves with random books.  The books need more work; so far
they're just plain box{} elements with randomised colours (apparently
they're paperbacks :-) ).
The scene is lit by the light fittings in the ceiling, which is why the bear
doesn't have much light on him.  The lighting's more appropriate here than
in his first appearance, anyway.

Photoshop was used to convert from PICT to JPEG format, and to add the text
info in the corner.