TITLE: Hostage
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: hostage.jpg
ZIPFILE: hostage.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows 95/98/NT

TOOLS USED: 
    Cliff Bowman's OBJuvPOV program, Keith Rule's
Wcvt2pov, Chris Colefax's Trimap macro, Gilles Tran's 
MakeWall macro, Poser4, Baumgarten Enterprises for the 
lizard model, PhotoShop, PhotoStyler, Lview Pro for jpeg 
conversion and copyright note.

RENDER TIME: 
    5hr 50min

HARDWARE USED: 
    generic Pentium-III w/ 256 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

For me it is a tourist held by the local rebel forces.  He 
could be a captured CIA spy or someone waiting for trial 
after being arrested for drug transportation.  It could also
be a metaphor of a Vietnam Vet trapped by his own guilt.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The floor, back and left walls are height fields.  Pov was 
used to create all height fields and image maps. They were 
modified with PhotoShop and PhotoStyler.  Noise was added 
to the plaster height field and low spots were added to the 
floor for the puddles of water. Gilles Tran's MakeWall 
macro was used for the right wall and the floor in the 
hallway. 

The old wood texture was done with a POV created image map.
This same texture was re-scaled and used for the man's hair.

Media was used to create the shaft of sunlight.

The model for the lizard was converted for POV with Keith 
Rule's Wcvt2pov.  After posing, the Poser4 data was 
exported as a Wavefront OBJ file. Cliff Bowman's OBJuvPOV 
program was then used to convert this to an include file 
for use with Chris Colefax's Trimap macro, to do the UV 
mapping.

To save space the height fields, image maps, Poser include 
file and the lizard are not included.  The height field for 
the floor is included.  The POV files for the HF's and IM's 
are included.

Other credits:
Jaime Vives Piqueres for sharing his source code on his web 
site.  He has great examples on how to create plastered 
brick walls.

Thanks to the folks at the povray.binaries.images news 
group for a few good suggestions.

Well that's about it.
Good luck to all.

