TITLE: jhk_toy
NAME: Jussi Kantola
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: jussi.kantola@iki.fi
WEBPAGE: http://www.iki.fi/~jkantola/
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jhk_toy.jpg
ZIPFILE: jhk_toy.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray v3.6.1 / MegaPov v1.1

TOOLS USED: 


   XEmacs w/ pov-mode.el
   GIMP v2 for auto-stretching contrast and slight 
   brightness/contrast adjustment.  Unprocessed rendering output is
   included in the source .zip


RENDER TIME: 
    Too long

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.7GHz Pentium-M, 512MB DDR

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


   Two real-world toys that begged to get ray traced.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


   During the last year my fascination with ray tracing and POV-Ray
   has been rekindled to the point I made the decision to finally participate
   in IRTC.  The day I found out about the 'Toys' topic I was going
   through some drawers in my childhood house, and these two toys
   just popped up within my reach.  You know how it goes.

   All the modelling is very simple CSG.  In fact, I've started to
   think of this image as my 'first post', even as it's appearing
   on the IRTC and not the forums.

   The final image with lots of photons and insufficient radiosity samples
   took ages and ages to render (something like 4 days on a P-M 1.7), and
   the results shows radiosity artefacts...  I'll try to do better on 
   the next round.