TITLE: A Disturbing Situation
NAME: Johannes Riechart
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: antialias@pcsrock.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: adisitu.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    Povwin 3.1


TOOLS USED: 

    Rhino 3d, Moray, Photoshop


RENDER TIME: 

    8h 33min


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium II 266, 160 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


If you can imagine my predicament:  It was the eve of my first wedding
anniversary,
so I had spent the day doing various yardwork chores and cleaning out the
garage.
As I was cleaning myself up in the bathroom, I laid my wedding ring on the back
of
toilet so as to facilitate a more thorough scrubbing of my hands.  Weary as I
was, 
due caution was not placed on this maneuver, and I immediately knocked the ring
into
the water!  Reasoning that the eve of the wedding anniversary was not precisely
the
prime occasion for me to exlain to my wife that I had forever lost the symbol of
our
undying devotion, I began to attempt to extricate the ring from this precarious

location.  It was just beyond reach, I could feel the edge of it, yet for every
inch
further I strained for it, the ring would dive further into the abyss.  My
lovely wife
found me four and a half hours later.  When the rescue team arrived, the fireman
in 
charge took a moment to snap a picture before hoisting me out..... he indicated
that
if he didn't get this on film, nobody would believe it.......


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Modeling was accomplished with Rhino.  As I am new to 3d modeling, fairly
rudimentary
NURBS techniques were employed.  Lofting, extruding, revolving, and
manipulating
control points were common, with a boolean or two thrown in.  I used a
heightfield to
make the rug.  The entire scene was put together in Rhino, then I exported to
Moray via
.udo format.  Moray was used for lights, camera, and material development --
since I 
find POV itself to be (temporarily) incomprehensible :-)  The scene was rendered
using
radiosity and a good dose of antialiasing.  Photoshop was used for png-->jpg
conversion
and to create a couple of maps.  I didn't include the source files in this
submission due to the fact that unzipped they weigh 250+ meg, which would make
my 28.8
modem simply explode into tiny pieces.  Apparently, high poly modeling Rhino to
Moray
to POV is not as space efficient as hand-coding in notepad, so I'll have to work
on 
that... If anyone would like to discuss any further on how this scene was
composed or
rendered, or would like to look at individual models, please feel free to email
me.