TITLE: Kata
NAME: Christophe Bouffartigue
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: tofbouf@oreka.com
WEBPAGE: http://tofbouf.free.fr
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cbasia.jpg
ZIPFILE: cbasia.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        POV-Ray 3.5 beta 9


TOOLS USED: 

        Poser 4
        OBJUVPOV by Cliff Bowman
(http://www.geocities.com/who3d/Downloads.html)
        sPatch by Mike Clifton
        The Gimp 1.2
        DAZ 3D products (http://www.daz3d.com)
        Kimono by ISO (iso2400@pop07.odn.ne.jp)
        Maketree by Gilles Tran (http://www.oyonale.com)


RENDER TIME: 

        ~ 25 hours


HARDWARE USED: 

        Duron 600MHz (running @ 630MHz), 384 Mo RAM
        Win 98SE / Linux Suse 7.0



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

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        Martial arts are something you can find throughout the east half part of
Asia, from
        India and Tibet to Japan or Korea. The one depicted here is karate,
coming from Japan.
        The man behind the rice paper screens executes a "kata", a codified
series of movements,
        that represents a virtual fight against several opponents. The scene
takes place in a
        traditional japanese room, where I tried to collect many references to
japanese or
        chinese culture (actually, the man is seen as a shadow graph, that we
call in french:
        "chinese shadows"...).



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

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        No fancy technics in this picture, so here is a list of the objects:
        - walls: boxes, simply textured
        - beams on the ceil: rounded boxed.
        - rice paper screens: basic CSG, and the screen uses double_illuminate.
Done
          in a macro.
        - tatamis: done with a macro, and placed with 2 nested while loops.
        - paintings on the walls: done with a macro from a previous IRTC round
(worship).
          The pictures were found on the internet (on a site about japanese
art).
        - the lighting cube: a macro, using media, double_illuminate, and soft
shadows.
        - the bonsai: done with Gilles Tran's Maketree macro.
        - the tables: simple CSG.
        - the tea set: simple CSG for the cups, and the bicubic-patched Utah
Teapot.
        - the cushions: a mix of cylinders, spheres ans mesh2, done with a
macro.
        - the PS2 ans its controller: CSG, image maps, and a bit of sPatch.
        - the TV: basic CSG, with a filtering image map placed before an area
light.
        - the chinese puzzle on the TV: basic CSG.
        - the karateka: "Michael" model from DAZ3D, with his pants.
        - the "geisha": "Victoria 2" model from DAZ3D, and the kimono by ISO.

        This render uses radiosity. All direct light sources use soft shadows.

        Close-ups of the chinese puzzle, PS2 and bonsai are available on my
site, in
        the "Galerie" section.

        Except for copyrighted meshes and image maps, the source code is
provided.
        The image maps resolution was reduced for a smaller archive.

