TITLE: cheshire & candle
NAME: gary knowles
COUNTRY: usa
EMAIL: cmonkey3d@yahoo.com
TOPIC: fog and light
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cnc.jpg
ZIPFILE: cnc.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    pixie (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~okan/Pixie/pixie.htm)

TOOLS USED: 
    hamapatch, irfanview

RENDER TIME: 
    2315 S (shadow map) + 1733 S (render)

HARDWARE USED: 
    266 Mhz PII/ 256 M memory

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Cheshire lips blowing foggy breath across a frosted glass candle.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

First time i ever tried anything like this so i thought i should go with the
karate kid strategy and just concentrait on a couple of things.

Lips:

Modeled in hamapatch, embossed with a little texture to give them crinckles and
shaded with a skin shader.  Didn't include the shaders in the zip (not sure
about the copyright stuff) but they can be found at www.renderman.org.

Breath:

Made a twisty tornado like shape in hamapatch, then shrunk it in on itself to
get several layers.  Shaded it with a wood grain shader that was modified to
vary opacity instead of color.

Candle:

Started out with a cylinder and a torus.  Wrote a displacement shader to give it
the diamond texture and then shaded it with a plastic surface shader modified
to be translucent.