TITLE: A pleasant surprise !
NAME: Chris Holtorf
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lholtorf@nwlink.com
TOPIC: A moment in time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bathrm1.jpg
ZIPFILE: bathrm1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRAY, Poseray, Rhino 3D, Corel Paint, Poser, WinJpeg, Moray

RENDER TIME: 
    14 hours 26 minutes 6 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium P4, 2.4 gigahertz, 1 gigabyte of ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

   I just got home from a long business trip. As soon as I step in the door, I
immediately realize three things - the kids' aren't home, the house is
immaculate, and there is a sign taped to the wall with an arrow on it pointing
upstairs. Following the arrow, I find another one pointing to the bedroom door.
Stepping into the bedroom, I see a final arrow pointing to the bathroom door.
Pausing briefly, I push open the door, just in time to see my beautiful wife
stepping into the shower. . . 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

    My wife and I like to take showers together, so the idea was an easy one to
come up with and recreate.  
    I used Poser to create and pose the female character and Poseray to convert
her to POVRAY and add the textures. I used the same process for the slippers
next to the tub. 
   I used Rhino to create the towels, the soap dishes on the walls, the tub rack
in the tub, bottles and bowl on the table.
    The Bonsai tree was created from the Maketree macro, the rock in the bowl
from an isosurface with a fine green marble texture added to it.   
    Moray glass texture was used on the shower glass panels.
    The wallpaper on the wall near the ceiling was made from a scanned image of
a wallpaper sample I picked up from a hardware store. The towel texture also
came from a scan, this time from a towel from my own bathroom.
    The picture on the wall is a digital picture I took not far from where I
live. It shows a bridge over the Snohomish river delta at the lowest tide of
the year in Puget Sound.
   The rest of the objects, textures and lighting was done in POVRAY.
    The zip file does not contain any of the textures, the picture nor the Poser
character geometry. This was done to keep the zip file size down.
    Any and all comments are welcomed as I am fairly new to the artistic side of
computer graphics.  

