TITLE: Misfit
NAME: James Moore
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: jtm11@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: Lonliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: misfit2.jpg
ZIPFILE: misfit2.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser, POVRay, Paintshop (for conversion to jpg)

RENDER TIME: 
    around 14hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP 1900, 1GB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's strange how one can be lonely in the middle of a crowd...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The image is pretty simple, everything is CSG.  The "ground" objects are
superellipsoids with cylinders cut out.  The round pegs are unions of cylinders
with a glass texture and transparent poser objects.  The square peg is the same
with an emitting media for brightness.  The sky is scattering media with a
wrinkle pattern.  I wanted the people in the round pegs to be more wispy &
ghost-like, but couldn't quite get it right, so I settled on a "bubble"
appearance.  Also, I originally had planned to use a slight focal blur, but ran
out of time (taking a fairly long break from raytracing didn't help much).  I
didn't expect the scene to take so long to render (most of the test renders
took a little over 4 hours) or I would have used higher AA & media settings,
but was really pressed for time, so I guess I'll have to live with the jagged
edges & artifacts.  I'm still pretty new to this & as always, greatly
appreciate any comments & criticism.