TITLE: Franktown Elementary Gym NAME: Kyle S. Obrecht COUNTRY: United States of America EMAIL: jesusfreak@minister.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/4854 TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: kyle_gym.jpg ZIPFILE: kyle_gym.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02.watcom.Win32 TOOLS USED: g++, PolyView RENDER TIME: Parse: 14 seconds Trace: 11 Hours, 7 Minutes, 45 Seconds HARDWARE USED: 486dx100 - 20Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is based on the gym at Franktown Elementary School in Franktwon, Colorado. My dad is the gym teacher there, so I spent a lot of time playing in that gym while growing up. There are a few notable differences, however. The real basketball hoop is mounted on the wall, not free standing. The real floor is rubberized, not hardwood. You can read the real EXIT sign. And, finally, there is a climbing structure on the real wall between the basket and the door. But my goal was more the accurate hardwood floor than the accurate representation of the gym. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The most important thing I did to make this scene was to write a C++ program that would generate POV code (I created a .inc file). It did the randomizing of the patterns in the floor. Making it shiny was quite a challenge, but I think it looks decent. The basketball was the next challenge, because I wanted the lines to be absolutely correct. The basket was simple cylinder, sphere, and box combination, except for the superellipsoid foam pad around the glass. The net was interesting, as you can see from the source code. There are 15 lights in this gym, so when you render it you will want to comment some out and bump up the multiplier on the statement "color White*.1}" appropriately. SPECIAL NOTES: Unzip my files into one directory, the render needs all three. This text file is included in the zip.