TITLE: "Distraction"
NAME: Andrew Wilcox
EMAIL: awilcox@dreampeach.com
WEBPAGE: www.dreampeach.com

TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
COUNTRY: USA

RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Poser, PoseRay

RENDER TIME: 1 hour.
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 800Mhz.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Fleeing the desert with the ancient artifact... distraction...
	

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I thought I was done when I submitted my other 3 images for this theme, but in the last 3 days of the contest, more inspriation struck.

This image uses photons, media, and an area light.  Surprisingly this scene only takes about an hour to trace at 1024x768.  I tried adding radiosity as well, but it didn't really add much to the scene, it's also possible I didn't know how to tweak the radiosity correctly.

My grandmother has one of these games and I spent many an hour playing with it as a child.  I wanted to model it, and hadn't planned of making a full blown scene so quickly.  I placed a light about 15 POV units away, but accidently set the fade_distance=100, so the glare on the marbles was super bright.  It reminded me of the sun in Arizona, so I started in with the desert theme.

The sand is a height field made using POV patterns.  There are two wood patterns slightly out of sync with a little turbulence and overlayed wrinkles.

The hardest part was getting the marbles around the ring without having any overlaps, and not placing each one by hand.