EMAIL: zerozerozeroone@wyan.org
NAME: Michael Chelmecki
TOPIC: TINA CheP (This Is NOT a Chequered Plane)
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD PSEUDO-RAYTRACING COMPETITION PSEUDO-COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: HERE'S LOOKING AT HUES, KID

COUNTRY:United States
WEBPAGE: Private
RENDERER USED: POVray 3.6
TOOLS USED: IrfanView - convert to JPEG, gamma correct; Brush Stokes (freeware) - to "square up" (stretch)
and color adjust an image of actual paisley fabric used for the image map.

RENDER TIME: 6 hr. 11 min. 12 sec.
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"You're getting on that non-chequered plane with the new Pseudo-ITRC.
I'm going to stay here until the plane is safely rendered.  If you stayed here, the odds
are a hypergoogleplex to one we'd both end up in a virus vault. If that contest closes
and you're not in it, you'll regret it. Maybe not this millisecond, maybe not the next,
but soon and for the rest of your range.  We'll always have the Kernel. 
We didn't have, but we got it back when you came to the Compiler.  What I've got to code,
you can't parse and what I've got to execute, you can't be any subroutine of. 
Tina, I'm no good at being rigorous, but it doesn't take much processing power to
see that the problems of three little routines don't amount to more than the object
of floccinaucinihilipilification in this crazy network. Someday you'll interpret that. Now, now..."


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The plane, more or less a Lockheed 12A "Electra Junior", is pure CSG. 
All of the textures are in the source file except for the paisley texture,
which is an image map (paisec.bmp) that was modified as described above. 
Everything in the picture, except the plane, is deliberately simple, chequered
and monochromatic in order to emphasize the "non-chequeredness" of the plane itself. 
I tired a few renders with focal blur, fog and media.  These made the image more
"photo-realistic", but less dramatic in my estimation, so I quite deliberately left them out. 
I did spend a couple of days working on equations to generate a paisley pattern as an
alternative to the image map.  It's okay... I'm better now :-)