EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com NAME: Bob Franke TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Boogey Man COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/pov.htm RENDERER USED: Povray 3.02 TOOLS USED: Povray 3.02, Poser2, Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Michael Johnson's stwist.inc, TriSpectives & PhotoStyler. RENDER TIME: 11 hours 3 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium-133 w/ 48 Mb ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In my image we see a five year old boy checking his booby trap to catch the boogey man coming out of the closet. However, the not-so-fierce boogey man actually lives in the attic crawl space and is apparently somewhat afraid of the dark himself. After a few minutes of searching the web, I found the origin of the term "Boogey man." The boogey man was inspired by a tribe, known as the Bugis people, from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. These people were ocean-going pirates and, according to some, still are today. Europeans probably rewrote Bugis as Boogey. As stories of the fierce Bugis people spread, so did the phrase "The Boogey Man will get you." In western culture the Boogey Man is still with us and the concept is world wide. He exists in the minds of children and lives under the bed, in the back of the closet, in the old cupboard under the sink or maybe in the attic. But one thing is for sure, he comes out at night and must be feared. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Both the child and the boogey man were created with Poser 2, exported in the 3ds format and then converted to POV with Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov. Before converting the child to POV, I used TriSpectives to set the colors for his skin and underwear. After converting to POV, I placed the flashlights in the the boy's and boogey man's hands. I added the eyes to the boogey man and several partial tori to the child's head. The tori hide the smooth profile the boy's bald head and look like hair in the dark. In bright light the tori look more Medusa like. To save space, the boogey man and child files are not included. All objects, except the child and the boogey man were created with simple constructive solid geometry. The child's booby trap is a can of Ray_Cola, filled with a few pebbles, suspended from a stick with a piece of string. Photostyler was used to make the image map for the label. I used Michael Johnson's stwist include file for the string. The plates for the electrical outlet and light switch were made with the superellipsoid object. The wood flooring is patterned after our kitchen floor. A for-while loop was used to lay the tiles randomly rotated at 90-degree increments. The scene is illuminated with four night lights and two flashlights. To simulate a real flashlight I used two spotlights. The inner, smaller and brighter light has soft edges while the outer one is sharply defined. The night lights, three in the hallway and one in the child's room, each have an area light. To increase the size of the area reflecting off the wall, I added a spotlight. The scene was rendered with anti-aliasing set at 0.1 and radiosity turned on. Using radiosity made a significant difference with this image. The detail in the closet doors was greatly improved. Well, that's about it. If you got this far... thanks.