TITLE: First Historian
NAME: Al Vara
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: avara@pil.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 1st_hist.jpg
ZIPFILE: 1st_hist.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0 for DOS

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel 5.0 Win, Moray 2.5 for DOS, Terrain Maker 2.0 DOS

RENDER TIME: 
    1 Hour 9 Minutes 18 Seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    486DX100, 8 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The first image that popped into my head was ancient cave
drawings.  Some early human invented history by recording where the herd
grazed.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This is my third entry and I am
starting to get smarter in not trying to do things my poor little 486 
can't handle.

A hand drawing in Terrain Maker created the cave.  A hidden roof was needed to 
control the lighting.  A drawing of the animals were laid in as a layered
texture 
onto the cave walls.  The man's shape was generated using the instructions in 
the book "Ray Tracing Worlds with POV-RAY".  This made articulating the pose 
easy.  Clothing is a patch and the hair is a sweeped shapes, with a lot of 
attention to their texture.  Lastly, I could not resist building a fire.  
Simple cylinder logs didn't look good till I added a bed of glowing ashes.  
The halo tutorials in the POV-RAY 3.0 User Documentation got me through the 
problems in making flames and smoke.  The rest was time consuming tweaking.  
I really wanted to use Mikael Carneholm's Smoke Generator, but will have to 
wait till I have a bigger computer.


