EMAIL:relepp@sci.fi NAME:Juha Leppala TOPIC:Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE:Broken COUNTRY:Finland WEBPAGE:n/a RENDERER USED:POV-Ray 3.0 Windows for the creation and DOS version for the final rendering. TOOLS USED:sPatch for the broken statue. Paint shop Pro for gamma correction. All else done by typing. RENDER TIME: 7 hours 57 minuntes 59 seconds HARDWARE USED: Cyrix Pentium 150 Mhz with 16 Mb memory. IMAGE DESCRIPTION:A hall lit by (3*20=)60 candles.Nice checkered marble floor that reflects a bit.A broken statue (almost) in the middle of the hall. Snow is raining (outside). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:In the beginning I had NO idea what to make. So I started with the NICE floor. It took a while to figure out to us brick with same sized sides instead of checker (I wanted a small groove between the pieces of floor). Next came the walls. Then the balcony in which i used #while loops. Now the hall was what it was. But it was nowhere near art in that stage. It took me days to think what now. We were going Gothic in history (in school) and i just loved the rosewindows so i made one myself and even liked it :). I tried atmosphere to make the lightrays visible but didn't like it so i made something else... Snow! I used the rand(Seed) to make it random (ofcoz). Then i started making candleholders and candles. I almost made a .inc file but i came to a wall which made me forget the .inc. So i made just a regular part of the code. The candles are randomsized and so are the flames which are made with halo and whoa do they look good (i hope). Still there was missing the art part of this scene. I started fooling around with sPatch (by Mike Clifton, but i hope you already knew that :P) and started to make a leg. It was easy, but i started with too few points in the first part so it didn't look astounding. I WAS gonna make the rest of the body but the too few points problem combined with the fact that im not that good with human anatomy made me go with just a pair of broken legs. I made a pedestal where the legs were and that was about it (after i put a texture on it and translated it). Hope it does good...(it would be a mighty fine birthday present. I turn 16 November 2nd :) ).