TITLE: My First Time Playing Pool

NAME: Marco Bucci
COUNTRY: Canada

EMAIL: bucci@worldy.com
WEBPAGE: none

TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pool.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    trueSpace 3


TOOLS USED: 
    trueSpace 3, Marlin Studios' Seamless Textures CD.


RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour exactly!!


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II w/ 256 MB RAM.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Don't see how this fits into FIRST ENCOUNTER? Sit back while
I explain to you why this image DOES fit into the first-encounter category. 
This picture tells a story of a boy or girl (maybe even you) who went to a
billiard room for his/her first time.  S/he played a game of pool and s/he were
the solid balls.  S/he got beaten badly by his/her opponant, hence all the
solid balls left on the table without a black ball.  Then, s/he threw the pool
cue down on the floor and played some darts.  S/he was the person on the left
side of the chalkboard score table.  As you can see, s/he got clobbered by
his/her opponant.  S/he went home crying.  But don't worry, s/he's fine now. 
All this happened last year :)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Everything put forth here is fairly
complex modelling done by me inside trueSpace.  Yes, before you say anything,
the room does look a lot like the past animation winner "THE POOL SHARK".  As
they say, imitation is the highest flattery.  I got the poster/dartboard
texture map from the guiness site which is in his .txt file.  I loved the
layout of Niel Alexander's room and I decided to do my own variation on it.  If
you look very closely, you'll see dart holes in the wall where people have
missed the dartboard. Those are subtractions of very small cylinders and to
make them black, I made the background on this scene black colour.  

