EMAIL: velaki@aol.com
NAME: Steve Shoopak
TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: jPod
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: GIMP and Paint (for image maps and signature)
RENDER TIME: 9 minutes 46 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 2.20G 512M Toshiba Satellite Laptop

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

After thinking about what I would like to see on a shelf in a museum, I thought
of something common today, but might be rare in the future.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The shelf label was created in GIMP to be used as a heightfield.

The 3x5 card was designed for memory in GIMP as a layer, and then
the typewritten text was placed in a separate layer, the image
exported as a jpeg, and the file used as an image_map.

The shelf was orginally part of an ornate cabinet, but when I realized
that I was gonna zoom in to the shelf, I made a simple cabinet frame.
You can also see a simple wall behind it.

The jPod was created as a collection of CG, but to get the roundovers
I decided to use three merged base blocks, and then create the
roundovers with cylinders and spheres.

After rendering with Povray, I added my signature with Paint, and converted to jpg
to keep the size down.