TITLE: Pips the Puppet.
NAME: Rick van der Meiden
COUNTRY: Netherlands
EMAIL: H.A.vanderMeiden@twi.tudelft.nl
WEBPAGE: http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/~tw554156/index.html
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: puppet.jpg
ZIPFILE: puppet.zip
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.
      



