TITLE: Private Investigations

NAME: Matthias Opitz
COUNTRY: Germany

EMAIL: Matop@swol.de
WEBPAGE: http://privat.swol.de/MatthiasOpitz/index.htm

TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 86c_pi.jpg
ZIPFILE: 86c_pi.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.0 Win 95


TOOLS USED: 
    Rhinoceros Beta Version, Paintshop Pro (to resize and create a
JPG-file)


RENDER TIME: 
    68 hours 38 min (resolution 1900x1425 pixels)


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 233 MHz, 128 megs of RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A "first encounter" in a somehow classical detective scene from the movies of
the 40's and 50's. Not authentically
worked out in every detail (?).
During a foggy night, Rick Moranis (not the actor, but I like the name), a
(mediocre) detective,
gets attendance of an uninvited visitor. They are meeting for the first and for
the last time.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Most objects are hand-made POV-Ray CSG-objects (Jack Daniels bottle, filing
cabinet, desk-lamp, chair etc.).
For a few objects (human, telephone and revolver) I used free 3DS-models,
because these objects would have been
difficult to model with POV. I used the free Rhino Beta to convert the
3ds-models into POV-Ray meshes. I used
Rhino to model a hand, holding the gun. I spent quite a long time to create
tolerable textures and illumination.
I used halos for the cigarette smoke and embers and for the fog outside.
I used Paint Shop Pro to resize the image and convert it into jpg.

The final image was rendered with the following parameters:

1900x1425 pixels
adc_bailout 0.0039
max_trace_level 12
antialias_threshold 0.175
Method 1, Depth 4, Jitter 1.0
time: (Pentium II 233 MHz) 68 h 38 min
Smpl/Pxl: 3.16
Level: 12/12