TITLE: There Be...
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@janics.com
TOPIC: The Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lrlab.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.1g Dos (ran under Win3.1 and DOS)


TOOLS USED: 

    jpeg covertion & _ : Lview by Leonardov Haddad Loureiro
    POV editor: (unname) by me
    image_maps: Ms pbrush


RENDER TIME: 

     1 hour 22 min. 16 sec


HARDWARE USED: 

   Amd 5x86 133Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 An enpty classroom. What could cause this? Look at the window.
 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  This is my second entry. It took around 50 hours to get everything the way I
wanted.
  
   All the object here were made by me. Sometimes I wrote an whole other POV
program to 
  edit and view them and then INCLUED them in the main program. I did that with
the Benchs 
  and all the Glassware. The Clock and the Dragon I made a while back. 
  
   I started with the room and cut the windows and doors out and position the
lights and camera.
  Then came the benchs with sinks. I had to rework both the lighting and the
benchs unitl
  they worked. I wound up using 6 cylinder lights and DIFFUSE set low.
  Then I place the glass in the windows and most all the stuff on the outside.
  Then texture the inside walls, ceiling and floor. 
    Even at this point I still didn't have an Idea what my theme was going to
be.
  While I was working on the blackboard with some test letters, the reflection
in the window
  gave me an idea. I could use an invisable plane to change the reflection from
inverse to
  to readable. I just didn't know what to write. I tried a few things didn't
like any of them.
  While I was waiting for a test render, it stuck me, I could put anything on
that plane.
  But what? I went though a bunch of my old POV TGA's and found the dragon's
head. Then everthing
  fell into place. The dragon head, the words on the blackboard and the theme
for this piece.
   I then made the glassware and the burner. There are 3 basic glasses jars with
or without 
  stoppers and filled with 2 different liquids. Also a testube with or without 3
different 
  stoppers that can be filled with 4 liquids. Placing them a lot of time and
paper and pencil.
   When I did a test render. It needed somthing. I have play with NURBS. So I
took an old program,
  change it a bit, and made the gas lines to the burners.  
   Just when I was putting the finishing touches on, my POV editor(I made) came
up with an 
  'DATA MEMORY ERROR' while I was trying to save the program. I deleted some
unused line and it
  worked.(Whee!)    
  I heavily use the Partial Screen and Mozaic of POV to test object placement.
Thanks POV for
  both, sometimes you can tell before the first pass that you've done something
wrong. 
  I use a 800 by 600 pixel screen to try and get some of the details to show up
better.