NAME: Allen Dotson
TOPIC: Fire and Ice
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Frosted Poems
COUNTRY: United States
WEBPAGE: http://allen.emailnuts.com/
EMAIL: allen@emailnuts.com
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 7
RENDER TIME: 0h 24min 17sec
HARDWARE USED: 1.4 GHZ Athlon, 512 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

	Fire and Ice 

	Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,   
Some say in ice.   
From what I've tasted of desire   
I hold with those who favor fire.   
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate   
To know that for destruction ice   
Is also great   
And would suffice.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Like always, I used no external modeller, everything
was done in pure POV.

I started out creating the room the scene is in.  I used one box each for every wall, the floor and celing.  The window was cut out of the wall +z.

The window, is made of one box, textured like glass.  The spars are, again, each a box.  The frosted effect is created using gradients and turblulance. 

The table was created using boxes for the legs and for the table top.  It was textured using a wood pattern with a light gloss finish.

Paper is made of a box!  I textured it with a poem by "Robert Frost".  Its name is "Fire and Ice", I wonder why I picked this poem?  I really hate texturing with external images, but it had to be done this way.

I made the candle using a cone for the basic shape.  I merged it with a sphere to give the roundness at the top near the flame.  The base is the difference of a cylinder and a sphere.  It hase a cylinder merging with the base of the candle.  I finished the candle holder with a brass texture.  The candle was a wax texture.

The flame for the candle was particulary difficult.  I first made a transparent sphere and filled it with media.  I gave it emissive properties and turbulence.  With proper tweaking and scaling, I ended up with a flame.

The outside drifts of snow where created using a heightfield based off a bozo pigment.  It was then textured with a white/blue pigment.

That is the basic foundation of this image.

I enjoy radiosity, that is the brut of the rendering time for this image.  I set it up to pre-trace many times, just to get an accurate lighting.  Speaking of lighting, the lighting in the image is produced by only the candle.  Wouldn't want an imaginary light souce would we?

1.23.06 - Another day of tweaking the image, I fixed the window panes.  Instead of having one large pane of glass, I made each individual peice of glass.  I also added more realistic looking frost to the glass.  There are a total of three different types of frost used on the glass, I may add more so none of the panes look the same.

Well, I hope you enjoy this image as much as I enjoyed making it.  I always enjoy comments and feedback, they help me turn out better images in the future.

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Allen