TITLE: Smoking
NAME: Joe Buchanan
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: plazmic98@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ghost.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.1e

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 for scanning/texture editing, jpeg conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    8+ hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 400, 128Mb Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The scene is of a small room lit by old candle wall lanterns.  On the left you
can see a grandfather clock, and to the right, a small round table under a
window.  There is an ashtray next to a pack of Marlboro(tm) on the table.  A
ghost wanders about, tied to the still burning cigarette by its chain.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I was really bored one night in January '99 and scanned in the sides of a pack
of Marlboro(tm) and textured them to the sides of a few boxes and threw in a
cigarette.  Sticking a table under it, and a room around it with a nice
grandfather clock, it was lacking horror.  I left it along for about 3 months,
and finally decided to stick a ghost into the picture, along with a chain
drapped from the table, and a cobweb in the corner. The ghost's face is a
height field I made in Photoshop.  I haven't released the source due to time
restraints and very ugly code layout.

