EMAIL: Emory_Stagmer@amecom.com
NAME: Emory Stagmer
TOPIC: Math & Physics
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Surf!
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.access.digex.net/~justgus/ezekiel/ersbio.html
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 (DOS)
TOOLS USED: POVCad & PhotoShop
RENDER TIME: 20 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The wonderful Prof. Einstein as I imagine him in the afterlife:
Surfing Gravity Waves!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The accretion disk is a lathe, spline constructed based on a
poster from NASA about black holes.  Curve was done in POVCAD and
the PTH file hand modified into a lathe.

Everything else was done by hand.  The picture of the Prof. was
him riding a bicycle!  I removed the bike and the background in
Photoshop, and made a chromakey of him.  The board is a simple
CSG.  The force lines are a set of toruses. The jets are the
most interesting thing here, a pair of cones with a cylindrical
halo.
 
I had GREAT plans for actually orbiting objects around a 
mathematically correct black hole, but I'm (again) outta time!
(Does this happen to everybody?)  I've included the orbital 
code I DID come up with in the archive, just in case anybody
cares.  It actually works!  If I'd done what I wanted, the
parse time would have been several hours and the trace
would have taken about 30 minutes, just the opposite of 
almost everything else I've ever done with POV!

Not the greatest thing I've ever done in POV, but probably
the funest!

    Emory
