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

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

RENDER TIME: 
    Parse 00 01 13, Trace 00 10 07, Total 00 11 20

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

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's just my computer, with a screenshot on the monitor, which has in it
pov-ray
rendering the image, which has in it...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The keyboard was probably the hardest part to make, as the key object is kind
of
a weird shape, and I had to make different objects for all the non-square keys
(eg enter, space, etc.), and I had to line up all the keys (with help from
#while loops...). Still, the part of the .pov file that deals with the keyboard
may cause blindness :). I used one image_map for all the labels on the keys,
which saved alot on file clutter. I tried to represent my computer somewhat
faithfully, which was easy because I sat at it when I coded the scene :) There
are a few details I left out because I didn't have time and they didn't really
add much to the picture. Things like the little nibs on the 'f' and 'j' keys,
and the fact that my monitor has a little crease in the plastic that goes
through all the buttons.

