EMAIL: daffy-duck@worldnet.att.net
NAME: Matthew Welch
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Snowball
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.squaregear.net/raytrace
RENDERER USED: povray 3.5.beta.RC2
TOOLS USED: Photoshop
RENDER TIME: 28 minutes 4 seconds
HARDWARE USED: 1.2Ghz Athlon
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Oh, man is Suzy going to get it! She thinks she's such a good shot with a
snowball, but when June rolls around and I have the only snowball in the world
what's she going to do then? huh? Mom just better not throw this out.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

My girlfriend Libby Paletz and I worked on this image together. She
came up with the whole idea and made the images for the food in the
freezer.

This whole scene is CSG. I modelled it using an old version of POV-Ray
and then got the latest beta to add radiosity lighting for the final render.

The snowball is a blob with a fine granite texture added to it.

The ice cube trays were the slowest part of the scene. I had to add
bounded_by shapes to its sub-parts by hand to keep the render time in a
reasonable range.