TITLE: Childhood
NAME: N.B.
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: beliaev@utu.fi
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/7241
TOPIC: CHILDHOOD
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nb_chi0a.jpg
ZIPFILE: nb_chi0a.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    see text

RENDER TIME: 
    8 hours 30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166MHz 16 MB RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Thanks to everybody on IRTC-L mailing list. If it was not for the discussion on
topics, I would not make this image.

When I was so much younger than today, I was really fond of scale model kits. I
assembled a lot of them.
As far as I remember, I started at the age of about 5, with the help of my
father.
Could model kits be one of the reasons why I do raytracing now?
So when the "Childhood" topic was announced, after a lot of doubts and
hesitations I decided to make a model kit.
Of course I was also fond of spaceships, RC-cars, dinosaurs, etc.

All of the objects here have certain connections with each other, but it a too
long story.
Besides, some of it is quite obvious: I could not stand the temptation of making
a dinosaur after I made the pink fossil.

I also wanted to show all the things in complete disorder, as it used to be when
I was a child.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Most of the objects are hand-coded in POV-Ray text editor. The only exception is
chocolate foil: it's done with sPatch.
Graphics for Red/Blue car and RC car are made with CorelDRAW.
Clock face is not an image map but a csg of solid primitives.

I scanned the labels from the real paint and glue bottles, model kit manual and
box, to add more "realism" to the image.

I used a lot of blobs and superellipsoids here, especially for the cars.
"Stegosaur" is a single-blob object with spines made of superellipsoids.

All of the objects were created especially for the "Childhood" round, however,
Red/Blue car and pens were based on the objects I've done before.

The code is included in the .zip file.