EMAIL: jjanger@mail.cspp.edu
NAME: Justin Janger
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: HCl Polo!
COUNTRY: US
WEBPAGE: None
RENDERER USED: POV 3.0
TOOLS USED: none
RENDER TIME: 13min, 43sec
HARDWARE USED: P133 w 24 megs Ram and Win95
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	
	Some may ask how this relates to school. Well, I have a good reason.
All during high school, I saw the people on the water polo team walking
around with H2O polo shirts. It was almost as if they were forbidden from
saying the word water. It was ALWAYS H2O. This was the culmination of 
four years of education.
   Fine.
   How about a small change? It's just a few away on the chart. He he he.
HCl is Hydro Choride or hydrochloric acid. Let's have fun and say that the
pH is, oh I dunno, 3. Those of you that remember chemestry will smile at that.
   This is not how I originally saw the image. There were going to be bodies
and skeletons and stuff like that. I started putting them into the picture
and realized that it was one of the most tastless things I had ever seen.
Funny, but tasteless. And kinda gross. I did the textures too well.
   So the the game is over. Look closely at the scoreboard. MIT stands for
Masochistic Institute of Technology. Makes sense.
   The end result I'm happy with. Everything here is mine and done by hand.
And for those of you that like to grade down because I also have another
submission, please look at them and see that they have absolutely nothing
in common.
   And also, I love reading comments. A lot. Please put anything down,
if just the word "anything" (someone will).


     DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
     Okay, item by item:

   BTW, this is what the pool looked like at my high school. I got pretty
close. That's the reason for the choice of colors and textures.


   The pool: Had a really tough time with this. The original idea of
just a clear square did not work at all, even playing with the transparancies
for a day. Instead, I had to kinda cheat and stick a plane in there.
   That's the reason for the wall in back. Because otherwise you see the
rest of the plane.

   The bleachers: Looped squares and cylinders.

   The flags: This was a learning experience for me. I wanted to learn
as much as I could, so I did it without asking anyone. I was a little
surprised I got it. They're triangles that are rotated from a certain
translation (which gives the ability to resize). Then the flags themsevles 
are roated and then they are rotated on the y axis a random amount (each one).
   Look closely at them and you'll see that they all point in different directions.
This is espically obvious on the flags on the left side. I know, in the scheme
of things other people have done much more sophisticated things, but I
will now never forget how it was done. I like that.

   The cement: I love bumps. Small scale and high frequency works so well
for what I wanted. The walls on the buildings are Khaki really really 
bumpy. Exactly what I wanted. The cement is just a bumpy square. The 
small border around the pool is a CSG'd box.

   The Goals: As well as the fence are the same thing. A whole lotta cyliners
looped and then CSG'd so that they would fit. They're all just strung and
resized to fit where necessary. The goals would have to be metal. Rope would
be gone before the end of the game.

   Any questions please e-mail me.