EMAIL: sshelby@shelbyvision.com
NAME: Steve Shelby
TOPIC: TINA CHeP 
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: 2mice
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.shelbyvision.com
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Moray, Corel PhotoPaint9, POVray
RENDER TIME: 48m 11s 
HARDWARE USED: P4 2gh 256mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Not a checkered plane, but rather swiss cheese, no checkered planes allowed. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
The scene was created with Moray. I spent most of my time trying to make an 
appropriate texture for the cheese, and failed to get what I was trying for. I wanted
to get some translucency, but that seems impossible without seeing through it. I tried
media, which would have worked without the holes, but did not work with them.
Everything in the scene is either a primitive or csg, except the fly's wings, which are
very thin heightfields with a texture map pattern gradient. The sign uses an image map
made with Corel PhotoPaint. The image of the plane is from a model made entirely out
of spheres. The scene uses radiosity, and antialias depth of 4 to try to get the detail of
the mouse whiskers, although they still look somewhat pixelly. I tried antialias of 6,
which took hours to render, and produced no improvement, so I settled on 4.
My laptop that I use for this gets very hot, so I have to avoid really long renders.