EMAIL: plazmic98@yahoo.com
NAME: Joe Buchanan
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Smoking
COUNTRY: United States
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.1e
TOOLS USED: Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 for scanning/texture editing, jpeg conversion
RENDER TIME: 8+ hours
HARDWARE USED: K6-2 400, 128Mb Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The scene is of a small room lit by old candle wall lanterns.  On the left you can see a grandfather clock, and to the right, a small round table under a window.  There is an ashtray next to a pack of Marlboro(tm) on the table.  A ghost wanders about, tied to the still burning cigarette by its chain.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I was really bored one night in January '99 and scanned in the sides of a pack of Marlboro(tm) and textured them to the sides of a few boxes and threw in a cigarette.  Sticking a table under it, and a room around it with a nice grandfather clock, it was lacking horror.  I left it along for about 3 months, and finally decided to stick a ghost into the picture, along with a chain drapped from the table, and a cobweb in the corner. The ghost's face is a height field I made in Photoshop.  I haven't released the source due to time restraints and very ugly code layout.