TITLE: "Elementary, my dear Watson"
NAME: Dale E. Cieslak
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: dcieslak@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.tripod.com/~DCieslak
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dclmntry.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.02 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Photoshop, sPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour, 49 minutes, 40 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Home-built Pentium 100 MHz w/ 32 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Holmes entered his study, with Watson close behind.  The doctor 
protested, "But I don't see what this has anything to do with
the current IRTC topic!"  Holmes took his deerstalker hat off, 
placed it on top of the copy of The Times he had been examining
earlier, noting that it was precariusly close to the edge of 
the table.  Turning then, he exclaimed, "It's ELEMENTary, my dear
Watson!"


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


After racking and racking my brains for weeks and weeks to come
up with a decent image idea for the 'Elements' idea, I came up with 
one, but unfortunately, I tried to create it, and it didn't work out.
So with only a few days left, I came up with another, the fruits of 
which you see here.  The wallpaper is very similar to that which is
found in the replica of Holmes' study at the Sherlock Holmes Museum,
in London, England.  I drew it in Photoshop.  The London Times header
is the actual one, and the story (if you could read all of it) is an 
actual London Times article from the 1800s, concerning Jack the 
Ripper's first victim.  The title is "The Murder in Whitechapel" but 
the magnifier obscures it.  The newspaper was modeled in sPatch (what
a weird thing to do) and the texture was created in Photoshop (very 
tediously!).  The oil lamp was modeled in Moray, and the roses were 
created in Photoshop.  The magnifier was modeled in Moray, as was 
the table.  The deerstalker hat was created by hand in the POV editor,
and the texture was started in Moray's texture editor, and finished 
by hand.  I have 3 point lights in the lamp to get the soft shadows,
and one light low and to the front to show the edge of the table (I
put it in, because originally, only the top of the table was 
illuminated, so it looked like just a wooden disc, which irritated 
me, because I put some time into the table).  I really wish I could 
have come up with the idea sooner, as there are a few flaws I didn't
have time to fix.  But all in all, I like it, and I hope you will too.