EMAIL: barclay@fleet54.com
NAME: Nick Swider
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Physics Homework
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://fleet54.com/dig_art
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6
TOOLS USED: Photoshop for can, clock, poster, book, and paper imagemaps and croping/JPEG conversion 
RENDER TIME: 1 minute 18 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz, 768 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I realize my skills are lacking compared to many of those who enter this competition, so I tried to 
come up with a creative take on the topic. When I think of speed, I can't help thinking of velocity 
and kinematics from old physics homework. I tried add to the character of th sceneit with the sci-fi 
poster and ship model.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

There are a lot of image maps involved, but other than that it's pretty basic. The only parts of the 
image that aren't totally mine are the wood textures (from the POV includes) and the metal texture 
used on the ship and starbase in the poster/model (found over a year ago on startrekaustralia.com). 
I played with the AA, but no matter what i tried, I keep getting the pixely step looking effect on 
the book title, book cover, clock, and poster.