EMAIL: jtomoso@eecs.wsu.edu

NAME: John Tomoso

TOPIC: Childhood

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: The Snowman

COUNTRY: USA

WEBPAGE: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~jtomoso

RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 for WIN95

TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor
	    Breeze 2.0

RENDER TIME: 35 min

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166/32 megs

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	A snowman in the middle of a pine grove.  This is the first image I created
with POV-Ray.  I'm still proud of it, even though it looks kinda dumb compared to the
other images I've seen in past competitions.  It looks cartoonish, but I couldn't figure
out a better way to make the trees.  It works out good though, because I grew up in
Hawaii and I only saw snowmen in TV cartoons.  I always wished I could make snowmen, and
now I have, to some virtual degree.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

 The snowman was made completely of CSGs.  It was programed by hand in the POV text editor.
The hat is a SOR which was also hand typed.  The sky was made with a sky sphere statement.
 I made the tree in Breeze 2.0 (acquired after the snowman had already been made), and then
scaled and translated copies of it all over the place to give the illusion of a small grove
of pines.