TITLE: Winseat Horror
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 38ahoror.jpg
ZIPFILE: 38ahoror.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows 95/98/NT

TOOLS USED: 
    Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Warren Mann's OBJ2POV,
Poser4, Rino3D demo, Lview Pro for jpeg conversion and 
copyright, POV editor

RENDER TIME: 
    2hr 34min

HARDWARE USED: 
    generic Pentium-III w/ 256 Mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The image shows a man just blown out an airplane from 
window seat 38A.  As far as I know, this has never happened 
in real life, only in the James Bond move, Goldfinger.  In 
light of recent events, in the U.S., I hope no one is 
offended.

Originally I was not going to do an image.  Then I was 
granted the dubious honor of becoming an IRTC Associate 
Admin. As I stated in my acceptance speech, "I now have the 
duties of a U.S. Vice President and the God like powers of 
a dead sparrow".  So I hereby fulfill my obligation of 
creating an image in the "Winseat" tradition.

I have chosen to depart from the traditional Winseat style, 
set forth by Bill Marrs, and try to make a competitive 
image.  For more information about the Winseat tradition 
see URL http://www.apocalypse.org/~bill/raytrace/tradition/


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The window frame is CSG with several superellipsoid's. A 
macro was used to create random four sided prisms for the 
flying glass.  Yes, I know an airplane window won't shatter 
like this.  I just needed to add something to show more 
action.  The ribs in the plane's fuselage are a 
heightfield.  The clouds are a plane with a granite 
pigment. The land under the clouds is an image map using a 
high altitude photo of farmland found in the net.

The man was done with Poser4.  The body was exported as a 
3ds file and converted to POV with Wcvt2pov.  The head was 
exported as a WaveFront OBJ file.  I used a Rhino3D demo to 
explode mesh and extract just the eyebrows, inner mouth, 
lips and teeth.  These objects were grouped separately and 
converted to POV with OBJ2POV and textures applied.  

To save space, fullman2.inc was not included file, but the 
parts for the head are.  Email me if you want it.  It is 
800kb, zipped.

Rhino3D is pretty good, but I can't justify the $800.  So 
my search for an inexpensive mesh editor continues.

Hope you like the image.  It will be interesting to see how 
my entry in the "Winseat" tradition is received.