TITLE: Boogey Man
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: Childhood
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: boogeymn.jpg
ZIPFILE: boogeymn.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray 3.02, Poser2, Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Michael Johnson's
stwist.inc, TriSpectives & PhotoStyler.

RENDER TIME: 
    11 hours 3 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-133 w/ 48 Mb ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In my image we see a five year old boy checking his booby
trap to catch the boogey man coming out of the closet.
However, the not-so-fierce boogey man actually lives in the
attic crawl space and is apparently somewhat afraid of the
dark himself.

After a few minutes of searching the web, I found the origin
of the term "Boogey man." The boogey man was inspired by a
tribe, known as the Bugis people, from the Indonesian island
of Sulawesi.  These people were ocean-going pirates and,
according to some, still are today.  Europeans probably
rewrote Bugis as Boogey.  As stories of the fierce Bugis
people spread, so did the phrase "The Boogey Man will get
you."

In western culture the Boogey Man is still with us and the
concept is world wide.  He exists in the minds of children
and lives under the bed, in the back of the closet, in the
old cupboard under the sink or maybe in the attic.  But one
thing is for sure, he comes out at night and must be feared.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Both the child and the boogey man were created with Poser 2,
exported in the 3ds format and then converted to POV with
Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov.  Before converting the child to POV,
I used TriSpectives to set the colors for his skin and
underwear.

After converting to POV, I placed the flashlights in the the
boy's and boogey man's hands.  I added the eyes to the
boogey man and several partial tori to the child's head. The
tori hide the smooth profile the boy's bald head and look
like hair in the dark.  In bright light the tori look more
Medusa like.  To save space, the boogey man and child files
are not included.

All objects, except the child and the boogey man were
created with simple constructive solid geometry.

The child's booby trap is a can of Ray_Cola, filled with a
few pebbles, suspended from a stick with a piece of string.
Photostyler was used to make the image map for the label.  I
used Michael Johnson's stwist include file for the string.

The plates for the electrical outlet and light switch were
made with the superellipsoid object.

The wood flooring is patterned after our kitchen floor.  A
for-while loop was used to lay the tiles randomly rotated at
90-degree increments.

The scene is illuminated with four night lights and two
flashlights.

To simulate a real flashlight I used two spotlights.  The
inner, smaller and brighter light has soft edges while the
outer one is sharply defined.

The night lights, three in the hallway and one in the
child's room, each have an area light.  To increase the size
of the area reflecting off the wall, I added a spotlight.

The scene was rendered with anti-aliasing set at 0.1 and
radiosity turned on.  Using radiosity made a significant
difference with this image.  The detail in the closet doors
was greatly improved.

Well, that's about it.
If you got this far... thanks.










