TITLE: Dippy Bird Player Piano
NAME: Kevin Lynn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: kjlynn@gmail.com
WEBPAGE: www.telefish.net
TOPIC: Music
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ppiano.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Art Of Illusion

RENDER TIME: 
    ~45 minutes (lots of refraction!)

HARDWARE USED: 
    3 GHz Pentium 4 running Linux

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An after-market adaptor kit for converting standard pianos into player pianos? 
A thermodynamics demonstration for music students?  The hunt-and-peck method of
piano playing?

Some interesting links:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question608.htm/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The dippy/dunking/drinking bird and the piano were modeled using standard CSG
techniques. I used AoI primitives and the Boolean tool to build up the models
from simpler shapes. 

