TITLE: Out of Paper NAME: Christian Froeschlin COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: chrfr@chrfr.de WEBPAGE: - TOPIC: Absence COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cf_paper.jpg ZIPFILE: cf_paper.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6 TOOLS USED: MS Paint (JPG Conversion) RENDER TIME: 1 hour HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Sometimes, it may be the simple things you miss most. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, the main feature is certainly the toilet roll, which took hours to model and texture. I encountered some unexpected difficulties with the "spiral edge" which is a result of rolling up the original sheet shaped like a parallelogram. A spiral normal pattern didn't look good, CSG objects were difficult to bend in a spiral shape and an isosurface was not suitable because the edge is by definition not smooth. In the end, I modelled only a slice of the roll, where the edge is approximately linear, and glued multiple rotated copies of that slice together. A bathroom setting followed sort of logically, requiring tiled walls and some sanitary objects. The newspaper provided for an enhanced toilet look & feel without actually having to model parts of the scene people would rather not see anyway. A slight focal blur emphasizes the main object of interest; area lights and a few stray photons increase the realism of the scene.