TITLE: Show Time
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@janics.com
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lrshow.jpg
ZIPFILE: lrshow.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.1g Dos (ran under Win3.1)


TOOLS USED: 

    jpeg covertion : Lview by Leonardov Haddad Loureiro
    POV editor: (unname) by me
    Hill maker: (still to be finished) by me


RENDER TIME: 

    10 min. 24 sec. for screen image
    6 min. 56 sec. for main
   16 min.  20 sec. total


HARDWARE USED: 

   Amd 5x86 133Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 A goup of robots either watching a movie about wild life or are looking 
 away in regret at the beauty unknown to them.

 This image is full of CONTRAST 
     Light-Dark Color-Grays 
     Simple-Complex Freedom-Slavery 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


   This is my third entry. When I first learn of the subject for this round 
   my first thought about contrast was Black and White literally, a White ball 
   on a black screen. That would be way to simple and not worthy of this 
   contest. But at the same time I couldn't get the image of that simple 
   scene out of my head. So I though that a lone White marble statue might 
   work. While I was playing with that idea, making some test renders, 
   the test figure had an unique look that I liked. And when I place 
   five of them you couldn't tell if they where coming toward you or going 
   away. Still it needed somthing, that's when the idea of the 
   movie screen came.
 

SCENE : 
 This scene was made in two POV files one for the screen image, and 
 one for the main image.
 Also the Scene was made totally with POV (almost). The height field 
 used an old gif that I made a while back. I think the gif was made when 
 I was testing a program I wrote to write GIF's.
 This scene uses the standard colors that came with POV3.1g. Except 
 some times I just made up my own when a thing needed somthing more 
 complicated. Everything below not mark with a color use a handmade pigment.
 
objects quick outline:
  Main room : robots, hidden plane, two lights, screen 
    robots :  2 sphere & 2 cones colored White
    hidden plane: splits the scene in have so light from one side 
                      doesn't affect the other
    lights : placed where they light the outer side of the robots 
  screen : box with an image map 
   image map : (image in zip not objects) 
       shy_sphere : hand made
       height_field : uses contras.gif
       distance hills: has over 1000 triangles 
       water : box 
       birds : 5 cones , 1 sphere colored White

Zip-File:
    The zip contains everything ya need to reproduce the scene.(hopfully)
  I've just put the imgage for the screen in the zip. Just to keep the 
  size down. Other wise I'd have to include the another POV file and the 
  GIF use to make the height feild.
  It should have 3 files.
   lrshow.pov, lrshow.ini, confilm.tga 
  
Epilgue:
  To sum up I'd like to brag on the POV team. I know the work that goes 
  into programing. And they have a first rate program. Most of all I like 
  their philosophy of sharing it. They remined me of the olden day when I 
  first started programing. Thank You POV!
  
 Feel free to E-mail me with any comments and or suggests.



