EMAIL: H.A.vanderMeiden@twi.tudelft.nl NAME: Rick van der Meiden TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE : Pips the Puppet. COUNTRY : Netherlands WEBPAGE : http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/~tw554156/index.html RENDERER USED: povray 3.02 DOS TOOLS USED: Deluxe Paint (background), Graphics Workshop, L-view (conversion), EDIT.COM (everything) RENDER TIME: 26 hours, 47 minutes. HARDWARE USED: Intel 386/25 ! IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A wooden puppet on strings, with a silly long nose and a ridiculous huge smile, jumping itself senseless. And it's dressed in shirt and shorts. (can't have naked wooden puppets running around now, can we?) It's standing in a stage like scene, with colored lights, and a cardbord landscape and stage curtains behind. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Like this : Type.. render.. frown... type.... type... render... grunt.. render... wait.... render... wait... wait... mumble... type... etc. Some comments on parts of the scene : - The cloth on the puppet are made of blobs. It took a lot of work to fit them properly. - Peter has 300 strands of hair. He should almost bald then, right ? - He was build like a hierarchical structure, which made it rather tricky to make the strings hang vertical. - There are four spotlights, one is an area-light as well. - The background landscape was drawn in Deluxe Paint and is simple on purpose. It was meant that way. Okay ? Fine. - The JPEG image looks terrible.