TITLE: Do-It-Yourself Horror!
NAME: Simon de Vet
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: sdevet@istar.ca
WEBPAGE: http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
TOPIC: Horror!
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: diydenta.jpg
ZIPFILE: diydenta.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino 3-D, Moray, POVray for Windows, EasyPhoto (for image
conversion, image maps)

RENDER TIME: 
    About 3 hours (closed POV without checking. Oops!)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 266 MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Someone decides to take matters into his own hands.

What is more horrific, the do-it-yourself dentistry, or the appointment he's
trying to avoid?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Despite having almost a year to complete the image, I only started in the summer
of 1999. The idea came to me immediately, during a dental appointment just
weeks after the topic was announced. (This reminds me... I have another
appointment coming up that I've been avoiding. Hmm... maybe this image is
giving me an idea :) ) Originally, I wanted to do an image from a viewpoint
inside the mouth, with blood and bone flying. This became a view of the dental
surgeon's counter, full of evil instruments. With other IRTC rounds, and
University, work did not progress quickly.

I started in July, by modelling a circular saw. Though I worked on it for almost
a month, it never really clicked, and was abandoned.

In late August, I decided on doing an image of homemade dentistry. The rest just
fell into place. Then my second year of university struck, and everything came
to a grinding halt. The image was abandoned until October 30th, when I decided
to salvage the pieces, and put them together into a coherent image.


Nearly all objects were modelled with Rhino 3-D, which I bought myself as a
birthday present, at about $300. Wonderful tool, I can't reccomend it too
much.

Each object was measured carefully, to get all dimensions exact. Far more detail
was added than was needed, and much was lost in the final image.

Image maps were created using EasyPhoto, a pretty lousy image editor that came
with my scanner.

Textures and composition were handled by Moray, and the scene was rendered in
POVRay, with radiosity turned on.


I cannot include the source files in the .zip, since the Rhino models run to
about 100 megs. Ouch. Instead, I included the image maps of the book cover and
spine (not visible). Also included are closeups of the various objects, to show
off the (unnecessary) details I added. These closeups were rendered in POV,
except for the Pliers, which are a Rhino output.


I would like to thank:
     - Dr. MacPhearson, for inspiring the image (NOTE: This is not a good
thing)
     - Medesey Surgical Dental Instruments
(http://www.italpro.com/medesy/index.htm), for providing a good source of
horror.
     - The folks at povray.binaries.images, for providing comments on the
objects I've been creating.
     - The Rhino 3-D team. Without them and their product, this image would not
be.
     - The Rhino newsgroup, for answering all my many, many questions.
     - Kibo. I am allowed.


Simon de Vet
October 30, 1999

