TITLE: kitegirl
NAME: M. Fisher
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: fisher2@pobox.upenn.edu
WEBPAGE: http://members.aol.com/Shinzaho/main.html
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: kitegirl.jpg
ZIPFILE: kitegirl.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    TMPov

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino, Spatch, Heightfield Lab, Moray, Pictureman (for image
conversion)

RENDER TIME: 
    Parse 8 minutes, 33 seconds, Render 5 hours, 39 minutes, 53
seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dell Pentium 200, 64 Meg Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A girl trying to get her kite back. :)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This was mostly an exercise for me to learn how to do nested
loops.  The trees & grass were done with nested loops.  
Each blade of grass is a sphere using a radial texture, most 
of the radial texture was made transparent except for a tiny 
sliver to make the blade of grass. I used an onion texture 
on the ground to try to cover up the fact that the grass 
doesn't extend all the way to the horizon. :) The girl was 
modelled in Rhino.  The kite was modelled with Spatch. The 
kite strings are sphere sweeps.  The trees farther back in 
the background are made from blobs.

I'd like to thank AmaltheaJ5, VerseCurse & PCDaveD on 
America On-Line for their helpful advice on the textures 
for the girl. :)  Also Sonya Roberts for her useful 
tutorials on using #while & #rand statements, etc. and 
whoever did the arm tutorials for Rhino.