TITLE: Overreaction
NAME: Derek Zahn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: derekz@uswest.net
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: exfinger.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows

TOOLS USED: 

  sPatch, Leveller, Rhino 1.0 eval, Plant Studio, Paint Shop Pro,
  old freeware VI clone for text editing, lots of graph paper.

RENDER TIME: 

  11 hours, 47 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 

  Celeron 400, 256MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  Something horrible has happened behind the tool shed... More
  unpleasantness is sure to be found if you just look around a
  bit, but I'd run if I were you!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  As this was my first substantial graphics project, I wanted to
  get experience with a variety of techniques, and model everything
  myself rather than work from existing models, to learn.  Some
  objects are just hand-coded CSG (nails, boards, ring, can, blood);
  some are height fields (paint, flagstone, concrete); others were
  modelled with sPatch or the Rhino eval (finger, hacksaw, bottle
  cap, cigarette butts, flies, grass); the two outer plants were
  made with Plant Studio.  Textures are mostly hand-coded experiments.
  To make the gravel I wrote C programs to randomly generate mesh
  objects with about 2000 triangles each; then 30000 of these were
  randomly placed to avoid the flagstone; the gravel was just about
  the hardest part of the picture.  I spent a lot of time on this
  image and learned a lot, but I know I have barely touched a small
  fraction of the available techniques.  What fun!