TITLE: 6 Gold End
NAME: Matt Walton
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
EMAIL: matt@alledora.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.alledora.co.uk
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 6goldend.jpg
ZIPFILE: 6goldend.zip
RENDERER USED: 

  POV-Ray 3.5 for GNU/Linux (Athlon XP-optimised compile with GCC 3.2.0)

TOOLS USED: 

  GNU Emacs 20.1 (Source file editing)
  POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows (Some source file editing and test rendering)
  The GIMP 1.2.3 (JPEG conversion)

RENDER TIME: 
    18m48s

HARDWARE USED: 

  AMD Athlon XP 2100+
  512MB DDR SDRAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The moment just before the sixth arrow lands in the gold to gain that elusive
six gold end.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Everything in this image is modelled rather crudely by hand. The arrows are
based loosely on my own set of Easton A/C/Cs, and the target is a recollection
of the kind I usually shoot at.
Initially I wanted to use motion blur for the moving arrow, but as motion blur
isn't in POV-Ray 3.5 and I was too lazy to get MegaPOV I gave up on that and
instead attempted to reproduce the kind of effect seen in the slow-motion
sequences in The Matrix. It didn't come out too badly, but is far from that
kind of quality. Without focal blur it looks frightful, and happily focal blur
also gives a greater sense of depth which adds quite nicely to the picture.
Shame about what it does to the render times though.
I did think of trying a surface of revolution for the moving arrow's
displacement wave, but didn't get around to it before the deadline sneaked up
on me in the aftermath of Christmas.
The texturing is fairly poor, but that's mainly down to lack of talent on my
part.