TITLE: The Nisqually Valley School
NAME: Tim Attwood
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: timothyea@worldnet.att.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nisqschl.jpg
ZIPFILE: nisqschl.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray 3 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    POVcad, PC Paintbrush

RENDER TIME: 
    4hrs +

HARDWARE USED: 
    486/66 DX


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    An image of the Nisqually Valley School, restored, sitting
near a small stand of cotton-wood trees and some daffodils.  The school house
is a clasic two room structure that has fallen into disrepair and is being used
as a residence here in Washington State.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The school house is a complex CSG
shape.  The roof, windows, and door are added on to the union representing the
school.  The planking for the siding is differenced off of the walls... I
experimented with using normals to simulate this, and while they did a fair job
they appeared a bit off from the low viewing angle I wanted (to be near the
daffodils).

The daffodils are made with a generalized daffodil include file that I created,
and randomized by passing a seed value.  The .inc file is included in the zip
with the school.  Basically the flowers are formed of scaled blob components
rotated by a #while loop. The leaves are spiraled by a #while loop as well, and
the whole relies heavily on random numbers to make each flower a bit
different.

The grass was originally done with randomly rotated triangles, which produced a
nice looking grass, but unfortuately used up all of my system memory, in order
to fit in the school and daffodils I switched to long skinny polygon rectangles
with striped green/clear textures.