TITLE: Abort, Retry, Fail
NAME: Alan Campbell
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: alan_cam@bigpond.com
WEBPAGE: Nil
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ac_arf.jpg
ZIPFILE: ac_arf.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1


TOOLS USED: 

     Moray (initial room layout)
     ACDSee32 (jpeg conversion)
     Tape measure.


RENDER TIME: 
    4 hours, 47 minutes 21 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    HP Pavillion 4411, 64MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Be gentle- this is my first entry.

Since I don't own a copy of Poser, human forms are mighty hard to render. I was
looking for 
a scene with no people in it, like a patient's view of dental tools from hell.
But then...

I chanced to see a show "Crimes of the 20th century" talking about how the body
of a woman was
found in (several) parcels at a British railway station.  Police assumed she was
the victim of
a back street abortion, that "went wrong".

A stack of bleeding parcels would be meaningless without the background story.
What about
the abortion? That got me thinking about rusty coathangers, and the result is
the image I
submitted.

I've removed a mobile phone (dialling 911) and a Gin bottle, as it made the
scene too 
cluttered.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Basic room layout was done with Moray. That's why Z is up, instead of Y (grrr).
Final touches eg. macro for spiral on neck of coathanger were done in POV
directly.
Converted to JPG by ACDSee32.

Wish I could remember where I found that spiral code- it saved a bucketload of
space!