EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk NAME: Peter Murray TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Sorting the new coins WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ COUNTRY: England RENDERER USED: Poser 3.0 Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: POV-Ray 3.1b4 Macintosh PPC DeskDraw (for drawing bumpmaps) MacPerl and Super3D (to create imagemap templates) Adobe Photoshop (to convert to jpg and add the credits) RENDER TIME: About 15 minutes, I think HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A man sorts his new gold, silver and copper coins DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, I had a much more ambitious image idea for elements, which would have taken "elements" as meaning weather. It was too ambitious, but another idea occurred to me with about a week to go. Coins traditionally are made of elements such as gold, silver and copper (ignore bronze, it's an alloy). So I incorporated that into this Poser image, which has more scenic elements than any other Poser scene I've done, and then I zoomed so far in you can't see that anyway! Most of the coins shown are imagemaps on thin cylinders, and come either from scans of real coins, or from webpages which had pictures of coins. An overhead view of the desk shows the coins more clearly. The desk, chair and binder come from a CD of Poser objects produced by Zygote Multimedia called "Parts & Props". POV textures WhiteMarble and DMFWood6 were used to produce the imagemaps used on the walls, steps, desk and chair. POV 3.1b4 was also used to create the imagemap for the only made-up coin, which features a teddy bear (I had to include a token teddy bear somewhere!). That's the coin he's holding. I intended to put the image's credits on the binder, but every time I tried to wrap an imagemap round it, Poser crashed. Ho-hum. There's been a lot of discussion about what can and cannot be included in publically-distributed Poser files. Since the file includes the Zygote objects mentioned above, it can't legally be distributed, and is therefore not in the zip file. The zip file does include the overhead view and the jpg version of the teddybear coin.