EMAIL: tglover@nettally.com NAME: Tim Glover TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Smokin' in the Girls' Room COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.02 for DOS TOOLS USED: dBase III+ and some homegrown FORTRAN programs for file and coordinate conversion, WCVT2POV v 2.6c for some object format conversion, ProtoCAD v2.0 for DOS to create chrome fittings, Moray to put it all together, PovRay 3.02 for DOS to render, LView Pro 1b/16 for TGA to JPG conversion RENDER TIME: parse 19 min 24 sec, trace 36 hr 40 min 50 sec, total 37 hr 14 sec HARDWARE USED: Intel 486 50 MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Who can forget those days in middle school (or junior high, for those slightly older than I) when one would go into the restroom only to find a nasty smelling cigarette smoke layer hanging from the ceiling? This is a not-so-fondly remembered scene from my childhood, translated down one door (from the boys' room to the girls' room), since I had a more realistic set of girl's legs than boys. (and no urinal models, either!) This is actually an extension of a test scene I have been using to learn textures. I've been playing with layered textures (see greywalls) and at the same time playing with looping in an .inc file. I've also been toying (mostly unsuccessfully) with realistic skin textures/colors. Combine all this with a chance hearing of "Smokin' in the Boys' Room" on a local oldies station and a penchant for a twist on titles and you've got the inspiration for this image. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: There is a great paucity of tools for the Win3.1/Win32s environment. I applaud software authors that still support this platform. I also understand those who don't -- Microsoft's yanking of Win32s support from the latest versions of their C compilers is unfortunate. I parameterized the tile example given in the PovRay demo docs to play with .inc files. I modified the rusty texture (also from PovRay demo docs) to add a rusty layer to the chrome fittings. After converting objects to .raw format, I used a set of homegrown dBASE III+ and FORTRAN programs to chop the legs and toilet objects (sources of objects described in included source .zip file) to minimize triangle counts. I put it all together in Moray and picked a useful camera angle -- then let it crank and grind over the Christmas holiday weekend.