TITLE: 8:45pm Where are there?
NAME: Jeff M. Thomas
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: jeff@twilightfair.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/gonk/povray/WhereAreThey/WhereAreThey.html
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: WhereAreThey.jpg
ZIPFILE: WhereAreThey.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5 Final
TOOLS USED: 
RENDER TIME: 
    Total : 3 hours 15 minuts 21 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    IBM ThinkPad Intel Celeron 800mhz 320MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

    It's 8:45pm, a patient Winston the Dog longs for the return
of his family.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

We recently obtained a dog from animal rescue. We're lucky in that 
we can take her to work but we must leave her at home at times to
run errands, see movies etc. etc. I had been kicking around a number
of ideas for this subject, but when we came home one day and looked
through the window to see our dog (not the one in the image, I
didn't have the time to model a Pug with any accuracy:-)

It's lit entirely by radiosity and 4 lights, three in the lamp and 
one in the room to the right.

Object info:

ISOSURFACES:

 The hollow glass blocks in the window.

 The Gold & Glass thing on the bottom shelf of the side table. It's
the only thing that was from before I started this image (the rest
are all made originally for this). It was a test of isosurfaces in
a CSG with standard Povray objects. By itself it takes a long time
to render.

 The tile floor is made of isosurfaces. It probably doesn't have to
be but I had the function for making isosurface walls already...

BLOBS:

The dog is a blob, he was my blob learning experience actually, I've
never used them before this.

The hollow flame shaped glass bulbs in the lamp are blobs.

The rubber bone is a blob.

EVERYTHING ELSE:

Is CSG.

The picture on the table, if you can make it out, is an image of
the sample file ionic5.png which I quite like. I did have an image
of this image in the frame but I figured that was too a-typical of
these images, I wanted to try and avoid clichés. Though it was
awfully tempting to put an impossible spline object or one of the
sample teapots on the table. And I didn't quite succeed, Povray
for Windows users will probably recognize the ball as being from 
the Basic scene template.

THE ZIP FILE:

It's contains everything you need to render the image.