TITLE: Dippy Bird Player Piano NAME: Kevin Lynn COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: kjlynn@gmail.com WEBPAGE: www.telefish.net TOPIC: Music COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ppiano.jpg RENDERER USED: Art Of Illusion RENDER TIME: ~45 minutes (lots of refraction!) HARDWARE USED: 3 GHz Pentium 4 running Linux IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An after-market adaptor kit for converting standard pianos into player pianos? A thermodynamics demonstration for music students? The hunt-and-peck method of piano playing? Some interesting links: http://science.howstuffworks.com/question608.htm/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The dippy/dunking/drinking bird and the piano were modeled using standard CSG techniques. I used AoI primitives and the Boolean tool to build up the models from simpler shapes.