TITLE: Let Yourself Go.
NAME: Pete Grooby
COUNTRY: New Zealand
EMAIL: pgrooby@trimble.co.nz
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3069
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bodashus.jpg
ZIPFILE: bodashus.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray Version 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    3 hours 3 minutes 18 seconds at normal priority

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166 with 64 megs

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Embracing the topic I wanted to depict someone truly getting 
entertainment out of their art.

Also it symbolises someone completely letting themselves go and riding 
their music, as if a wave.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The waves were create as bicubic patches using sPatch. The texture on 
the surface started out as some sheet music I had handy. Its actually 
the renaissance tune "Grimstock" I then painted the blue/green to the 
top of the image map with Paint Shop Pro.

The figure was created using "People Plugin for POV-Ray 3.x" by Hero 
Ngauv, 1997 roreo123@juno.com a very nice library for modelling human 
figures.

I tweaked the original to create the shorty wetsuit effect and logo. Also the 
goatee on his face and a slightly sunburnt nose.

The logo on the wetsuit is an O'Neill logo, pulled off the net. I have 
emailed them for permission but not heard back let. So I hope its OK.

The surfer's hair is was created using sPatch. I started with an 
irregular shape and extruded/scaled/rotated/translated it a number of 
times to taper it out to a point. I wasn't completely happy with the 
result so the final hair is actually the same object repeated twice 
slightly rotated to the left and right.

The watch was created using CSG with an image map applied for the bezel
and the face. The face is from a Rip-Curl watch found on the net. 
(Although all it is possible to make out up close are the hands).

The guitar is a 69 Fender Stratocaster. I found a front view of the 
guitar on the net. It seems to be a common image as I found numerous 
versions of it of differing quality all over the place.

From the image I created both a height field and a GIF to paint over 
it. The strings were then added as individual cylinders.

The sea is a standard plain with bumps added. The sky is a sky sphere. 
The horizon was broken up using a halo sphere stretched sideways.

Finally the lens flare. This was added using "LENS EFFECTS INCLUDE FILE
 FOR PERSISTENCE OF VISION 3.x" by Chris Colefax ccolefax@geocities.com

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Pete Grooby 31 October 1997



