TITLE: Jazz
NAME: Jason Perry
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: jmg@gte.net
WEBPAGE: http://home1.gte.net/jmg/
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jazz.jpg
ZIPFILE: jazz.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Persistence of Vision 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    My head and some graph paper

RENDER TIME: 
    Around 45 Minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 100 w/ 16mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        Simple. It's a jazz player's trumpet, an 8th note, a treble clef and a
few
accidentals. I have only been using POV-Ray for a few months now, and this is my
first entry
to the IRTC. It is also only my second complete scene I've done with POV-Ray,
and I am
very pleased with the results.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        The trumpet is modeled completely in CSG. It consists of a lot of
cylinders and torii,
a lathe, and a few spheres. This took about 3 days working on it for an hour a
day(so I wouldn't
start to hate it). The musical notaions are text objects from a True Type Font I
got with a MIDI
sequencer(the font, jazz.ttf, is included in jazz.zip). The texture for the
Trumpet was done by
hand. The finishes for the notes were also done by hand and then brought in to
Texture Magic and
copied over and then I added the different pigments. I put all the textures in a
Texture Magic
catalog that is included in jazz.zip. It rendered quickly on my machine, but I
forgot to note
the time that it took to render. It was somewhere around 45 minutes.

