EMAIL: 	Matthew_L_Ziegler@hill-top.com
NAME:	Matthew L. Ziegler
TOPIC:	School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
TITLE:	An Apple for the Teacher
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED:  POV-RAY 3.0
TOOLS USED:  PAINT SHOP PRO, paper, pencil, brain, etc.
RENDER TIME: about 6 1/2 hours. 
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133, 16MB RAM
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS FILE WAS CREATED:

After scrapping alot of ideas, I was bored one day while working and 
decided that it would be interesting to render the coffee cup sitting on
my desk.  After finishing that, I thought "Hey, why not my desk blotter 
too".  Then It cam to me.  Do a scene from behind the teacher's desk. 
And since no teacher's desk is complete without an apple, I had to create
the apple.  

I tried to model an apple several times, but was never very pleased with the results, I also tried finding an existing model.  But I was never happy with the way they looked.  So I sat and looked at an apple I had at home (it happened to be a Rome apple, my favorite).  I noticed that it was really nothing more than a torus with the minor radius being greater than the major radius.

The image map for the globe and the maps on the wall was taken from a website and I thought they worked VERY nicely.  The tree was actually a 3ds model I had converted, modified, and reparsed.

For the final render I used AA .1 with the Radiosity set at Final.  Though I cannot say that radiosity in this case made much difference.

I hope everyone enjoys the image as much as I enjoyed creating it.