TITLE: "Cheetah"
NAME: Steve Paget
COUNTRY: Wales

EMAIL: 25ct@lineone.net
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cheetah.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.5


TOOLS USED: 
    Wings3D for all modeling, PoseRay for conversion to PoV,
PaintShopPro 5 for 'dirt' texture on floor and walls, PhotoDeluxe 2.0 for
conversion to JPEG, and Irfanview for compression.


RENDER TIME: 
    4 hrs, 10 mins.


HARDWARE USED: 
    600Mhz AMD Duron - 512MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  Well, this image doesn't really depict 'speed' as such, and as is, it's really
my little celebration of the worlds fastest land animal. My first attempt that
I showed in p.b.i for advice, really was a depiction of speed and the
magnificent cheetah, (look for "Whoooosh!") but it failed abysmally in that the
model wasn't quite right, (it wasn't bad, but had quite a few noticeable flaws
which have now hopefully been fixed), and the reference image that I used (from
the 'net) to generate it, was a fake, so was there was no way I was going to
develop that image further for this topic.

   Hmm...

  Anyway, I couldn't put my cheetah model to waste and thought about this scene,
so I hope you like it.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  I can't really say much here because this image was generated by pure Wings
modeling, but the one thing that I really did enjoy is that I learnt a fair bit
about using .png images for transparent image_maps. I love this concept, and
still have a lot to learn about how to produce overlaying textures, and how
'things' should look like in 'real life', but it's something that I want to
develop further to the full.

   And last but not least, thanks goes to Thomas de Groot for his sand texture.

   Anyway, good luck all and happy New Year!  :o)

    Steve