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#                     December Ray Tracing Contest Entry                     #
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FileName:      wjgjenga.jpg

Name:          Joey Gibson
EMail:         wjg@creeper.atl.ga.us (Home)
               wjg@atl.ema.eds.com   (Work)

Programs used: POV-Ray 2.2 on a linux box for development and final rendering,
               MORAY on a PC for the table leg, TGATEXT for the copyright 
               notice, TGA2GIF for the GIF conversion, CJPEG to create the .jpg
               file, and *LOTS* of scrap paper.

Description:   Jenga, for those who don't know, is a game of stacking blocks.
               The game begins with a tower 18 stories high, with each level
               made of three blocks. Each player, in turn, removes a blovk
               from somewhere on the tower, and places it on the top. The
               object is to construct a tower much higher than the original
               tower. This get difficult as the tower grows in height, and
               the lower levels are reduced to one or two blocks.

               This scene is of a Jenga game in progress. (I actually played
               the game by myself and have had the results sitting on my
               desk for reference). The tower sits upon a table top of black
               and white mable, which is itself sitting atop a concrete slab
               (a patio, perhaps). The sky is blue and the grass is green.
               A nice day for a game, no?

Misc:          This is the first real image I have created using POV. I have
               been creating simple images in order to learn POV, while
               pouring over "Ray Tracing Creations: 2nd Edition" and
               "Ray Tracing Worlds with POV-Ray". Both are excellent books,
               and have helped me quite a lot. While I don't expect to win
               any contests with this image ( 8-> ), it was fun creating it
               (even thought it ate up about 50 hours of my vacation), and
               I hope maybe someone will find it attractive and/or useful.

Of Interest:   I originally converted the .tga file to a gif using the 
               following pipeline:

               tgatoppm wjgjenga.tga |ppmquant 256 |ppmtogif >wjgjenga.gif

               but this resulted in gif file of almost 1 meg (actually it
               was five bytes smaller than the targa file). I ended up using
               TGA2GIF on the PC, and then CJPEG for the size it is now.