TITLE: I Won!
NAME: William de Beaumont
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: amdebe1@ulster.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.ulster.net/a/m/amdebe1/
TOPIC: Dreaming
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: i_won.jpg
ZIPFILE: i_won.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g.Linux.gcc

TOOLS USED: 
    NEdit, The GIMP (for image maps and jpegization), import (for
screenshots) Mozilla (in screenshots)

RENDER TIME: 
    about 8hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel Celeron 300A@374MHz, 192MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

My dream :)
I wake up in the morning, the light shining through the window behind my
computer, and check the IRTC website to see who won this round...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The model of the computer is mostly inherited from my last entry, 'PovMe', but
I
have added and improved many small details, and I made a wider world around it
(instead of the blackness in 'PovMe'). Most of the details are based in
reality;
I really do have stacks of disks on my computer, some of them in those clear
plastic boxes. The front bezel of my computer really doesn't fit :) The only 
really fake parts of the scene are the paintings in the corner. Those are only
there because the wall was blank otherwise, and I didn't really feel like
taking
photographs of the pictures that are actually on my wall :) That and the fact
that I run my monitor at a higher resolution that didn't show up well at
800x600, so I kinda fudged the screenshot slightly :). I tried, but I couldn't
stop some of the lines from becoming dashed lines (or otherwise look bad) while
keeping antialiasing on.

The major problem I had in making this picture was the lighting. Theoretically
it should just have two lights, the window and the ceiling light. In reality,
the light bounces everywhichway off of the white surfaces of the computer, and
off the walls of my room. Radiosity didn't do the trick, so I had to use a
bunch
of area lights. I had a hard time placing and sizing those lights so that they
would light each surface correctly. Placing each light made some surfaces too
bright, so I had to readjust all the others :(

Changes in the computer model from 'PovMe' include:
-curved key arrangement
-nibs on the f, j, keypad 5, and arrowpad space keys
-adjustments to the keycap image_map (some marks went down the sides of the
 keys)
-better cables (based on manually placed torii and cylinders, rather than
 randomly placed spheres and cylinders)
-better-looking monitor controls, complete with labels and a decorative crease
 (as well as a not-so-decorative one :)
-better placed vents on the side of the computer case
-vents on the bezel

And yes, I do have a mouse, it's just out of frame :) It's in my hand; I use my
mouse differently from most people, kind of like an upside-down trackball.

Vote for this image and make my dream come true! ;)