TITLE: Scrubble
NAME: AJ Ashton
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: aj.ashton@gmail.com
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: scrubble.jpg
ZIPFILE: scrubble.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Vim 6.1 for coding
            The GIMP 1.2.5 for textures
            Photoshop 6.0 for textures & image conversion
            Notepad to write this wonderful text file

RENDER TIME: 
    3h 8m 12s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II Laptop for creation & test renders,
               Pentium 4 desktop for touch-ups and final render


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A Scrabble game, based on my "Deluxe Turnable" Scrabble set.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Most of the work on this image was done on an old Compaq Armada Pentium II I
have running RedHat 8. I had nothing better to do than to sit around and model
the first thing I saw (the weather was crappy anyways), so I did. Nobody wanted
to play Scrabble with me anyways.

1200 lines of code later this appeared. I've included the source because I
couldn't think of a reason not too, though a lot of it is there exclusively to
make test renders faster and/or because I can't make up my mind and don't like
to delete things. You can try to decrypt it if you feel like it.

Most of the textures are image maps because a) I suck at texturing and b) I am
lazy.

The final image was rendered with POV-Ray 3.6 under Windows XP in just over 3
hours, using radiosity and focal blur. I did leave it to the last minute, and I
consider it unfinished, and slightly rushed. There is a lot more I could have
added to it (and maybe I will later), but at the time of this writing I have
just under 4 hours until the competition deadline :D

