EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk NAME: Peter Murray TOPIC: Arts and Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Wanna book... WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ COUNTRY: England RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 Macintosh 68K TOOLS USED: DeskDraw (2D working drawings) RENDER TIME: Total Time: 2 hours 0 minutes 55.0 seconds (7255 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh Centris 650 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A teddy bear looks up at the books out of his reach DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Yes, I'm using the teddy bear again. I had various ideas for this round, most of which involved the bear anyway. This one was meant to have the bear lying reading a book for entertainment, with the books in shelves behind him symbolising the arts. However, the bear as modelled was so small, he wouldn't have been able to reach the books, so I posed him looking up at the books out of his reach. (Awww....) The teddy bear was modelled for the March-April contest round; the fur texture has been changed since his previous appearances. He's in shadow here, so he's not at his best. The other objects were built for this round. The shelf units were based on a furniture catalogue I'd just been looking through. The wood texture isn't quite right, but it's not that far off the finish of the real items. Of course, the camera angle I used means you can hardly see the shelves! So the zip file includes an earlier small render showing them. The carpet and wallpaper were meant to be cliched patterns chosen by someone who wasn't going to spend much time in the room. I wrote an .inc file and finally used rand() for the first time in order to fill the shelves with random books. The books need more work; so far they're just plain box{} elements with randomised colours (apparently they're paperbacks :-) ). The scene is lit by the light fittings in the ceiling, which is why the bear doesn't have much light on him. The lighting's more appropriate here than in his first appearance, anyway. Photoshop was used to convert from PICT to JPEG format, and to add the text info in the corner.