EMAIL: zerozerozeroone@wyan.org
NAME: Michael Chelmecki
TOPIC: Before & After
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD PSEUDO-RAYTRACING COMPETITION PSEUDO-COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: 1st Cup of the Morning

COUNTRY:United States
WEBPAGE: Private
RENDERER USED: POVray 3.6
TOOLS USED: IrfanView - convert to composite JPEG and gamma correct

RENDER TIME: About thirteen hours for "Before", about an hour for "After".
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
One of my favorite aspects of ray tracing is that one gets to work with the nature and condition of "the observer",
an important part of any composition, in a very direct way.  In "1st Cup of the Morning", a small change in that
which is depicted brings about a much larger change in the hypothetical observer.  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
In a word, hastily.  Having suggested the topic, I was bound and determined to get an entry in desipte
changing jobs and moving while the time for the round was passing.  As usual, everything is CSG from scratch. 
The only "outside" files used were the fonts 'Webdings"(the heart), "Arial Bold", and "Accord SF Heavy Bold". 
I didn't include the code this time because, to be bluntly honest, it represents REALLY bad coding practices. In order 
to get an entry in before the deadline, the objects I needed were created in a very ad hoc fashion with just enough 
detail to fulfill their function in this particular image.  The "chair", for example, has no legs or seat as they would not be visible. 
About the only technique used that might be of interest to someone else for later use is the method of placing the design on the coffee cup. 
It consists of the intersection of "box" and "text" objects with the "Cup" object ever so slightly scaled upward along the x and z axes.  
For any brand new ray tracers who might read this, the "Before" half of the image uses "fog" and "focal blur" to simulate perceptual 
dysfunction brought on by caffeine deprivation.  Clearly, this image will not be winning any technical merit awards, but I had fun 
making it and hope folks will enjoy it.