TITLE: Bathroom 1960 - Is electric shaving the future?
NAME: Peter Hertel
COUNTRY: Norway
EMAIL: peter@hertel.no
WEBPAGE: http://hertel.no/peter
TOPIC: Old Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bathroom.jpg
ZIPFILE: bathroom.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows v3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Wings3D, PoseRay, Paint Shop Pro 7, MegaPov 1.0 (simcloth)
PARSE TIME:    25m     + 38m    (rad. save)

RENDER TIME: 
    18h 35m + 6h 50m (rad. save)
PEAK MEM:      651m    + 629m   (rad. save)
CODE:          ~1000 lines + meshes
SOURCE:        bathroom.zip (Warning, not cleaned up)
IMAGE RES:     768x1024

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 450mhz 256ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Bathroom 1960 - Is electric shaving the future?

An typical (?) bathroom of the 1960's, the brand new Remington Lektronic Shaver
has put the good old hand razor in the shadow.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As I've never experienced the sixties (born 20 years too late ;), I had to trust
images I found, and the stories I was told. Therefore much time got into
searching for retro pictures.
I early on decided to make an razor and fell for the Remington Lektronic, it's
even rechargable!
Wings3D was used for some of the objects (listed below), I exported them to
POV-Ray with PoseRay and tweaked them to fit the scene.
The towels were created with MegePov 1.0 (simcloth) and exported to a mesh.
Most of the time went with trying to set up radiosity properly. This is my first
attempt at making a scene which depends so much on radiosity.
The last two weeks was very intense, I did a lot of changes and added a lot of
objects.
Focal blur was added to give the image a bit more touch, the first test render
with radiosity and focal blur took two days to complete! So in the final image
the quality is turned down an inch, and I also changed the resolution.
All in all I'm pretty satisfied with this image.
I did some quick solutions, which I hope I manged to hide pretty well :)
As an example: The Remington is just a couple of cylinders and boxes with an
image map. The shave brush hair is faked with an scaled normal (is it a wonder
it lies behind the ad?).
I'm a bit proud of the ad, since it's a handcoded mesh with uv-coordinated! Oh
well.. only 12 triangles in there, but nonetheless.. =)

When I was about to render the final image, I ran into several problems.
Suddenly the computer startet eating memory BIG time (I should have saved the
trace() cable to file), but I just started it and went to bed. Next morning
(two days before deadline) it had rendered for 3 hours, and then stopped, 50%
finished :-/ I needed about 30 hours for the final render, and I had to go to
work too! Well, I made a 1gb virtual memory page file on my computer and
started the render once again. I also brought the source to work and tried
using a XP1800 to do the render, but then the computer crashed, and I had no
time to fix it.. After ~7hours the rad. save ended, and I started the final
render, hoping it'd finish before the deadline. Which it did!

Wings3D objects:
Sink
Hand razor
Toilet
Toothpaste
Toothbrushes

ABOUT THE SOURCE:
In good IRTC spirit, I submitted the sources to the image. Please note that I
didn't manage to clean them up because I ran out of time, so they are pretty
messy.
You need Jaime Vives Piqueres lighting macros, as well as DoF.inc (Depth Of
Field include). To render a image equal to the submitted one.

THANKS TO:
My mom for giving me opinions on the image.
My computer for rendering, it's been working quite a couple of nightshifts.. :)
Jaime Vives Piqueres for rad-save-load.pov, and his awesome lighting macros. -
http://www.ignorancia.org/
Cadman for his radiosity settings, and Christoph Hormann for more radiosity
help.
Simply Switch On...! for the genuine retro images of the Remington Lektronic
shaver, as well as the ad. -
http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/paul.linnell/electricity/
The creators of all the awesome programs I've used!

