TITLE: Aiii!!!
NAME: Jeff M. Thomas
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: jeff@twilightfair.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/gonk/
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: aiii.jpg
ZIPFILE: aiii.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.5 Final

TOOLS USED: 

    3ds2pov: Poser to POV conversion
    Paint Shop Pro 7.0: PNG to JPG conversion, image_map manipulation

RENDER TIME: 

    Total : 4 hours 49 minuts 32 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 

    IBM ThinkPad Intel Pentium III 800mhz 320MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


    A young skateboarder is about to learn the importance of 
protective gear, the hard way. I bet he wishes he followed
the advice on his board.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The boy is a Poser model I posed then imported with Steve Anger 
and Jeff Bowermaster's 3ds2pov. Once I had him positioned and
textured I built the scene up around him.

The scene uses radiosity and 13 lights.
    6 are dedicated to the fountain, 3 are up-lights on the water 
sprays, 3 more shoot photons at the sphere through an isosurface.
    4 are lights in recesses in the stairs.
    2 are for the light fixtures on the cement walls.
    1 is an area light filling in for the Moon.

Object info:

The Boy is a Poser model I posed and imported then re-textured.

ISOSURFACES:

    The sphere in the fountain. I was going to have a statue of a 
horse and use my custom compiled POVRay to distort it's surface with 
an interesting texture, but it was rendering at 7 pixels an hour with
radiosity and photons so I had to drop it. I'm working on optimizing
the code.

   The textured cement walls, stairs and the mortar between the red
tiles are all made of isosurfaces.

  The water (out of shot), which is used to cast photons on the 
sphere, is an isosurface.

SPLINES

  The trees are splines using Andrew Clinton's excellent splinetree. 
The leaves I scattered around with a macro are also from this include.

BLOBS:

The fountain sprays are made of blobs using a custom macro.

EVERYTHING ELSE:

The stars are several hundred spheres placed at random locations and 
varying sizes with slightly different colors.

The skateboard, rails, lamps, tiles, fountain, coffee cup, sign and 
garbage can are all CSG.

The design on the skateboard is a bitmap of a legitimate design from 
Consolidated Skateboards, which I found while was looking for 
skateboard pictures to reference for my CSG model. When I saw it, I 
just had to use it.
http://www.consolidatedskateboard.com/boards/index.html

The design on the wheels is also a legitimate one from Powell 
Skateboards. Though it doesn't read very well in the image it's the 
Fireball wheel design in purple. I learned a lot about skateboards 
doing this entry.
http://www.powellskateboards.com/index.html

The logo on the boy's shirt is, naturally, the POVRay logo. This one 
was rendered using my custom compile to warp it's surface. You can 
see other examples of it on my website.

The silhouette in the background, against the blue/black skysphere, 
was made from a picture from a trip we took to the Yosemite valley.

THE ZIP FILE:

It's contains everything you need to render the image but the 
Boy include due to its size.