comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing competition, August 1995
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Entry name:  djs_mesh.jpg
Entered by:  David Stevenson, hoagy@cix.compulink.co.uk
Files:       djs_mesh.txt   -   What you are reading
             djs_mesh.jpg   -   The picture, 800x600 JPG
             djs_mesh.zip   -   Most important parts of the source
             
Description:
             An Alien World.  This started out as an experiment with
             a C program that messed about with GIF files.  In this 
             example, the program output a sphere for each pixel, coloured 
             the same as the pixel, and stretched in the Y direction 
             according to the equivalent greyscale brightness of the 
             pixel.  This block of stretched spheres is overlayed by red 
             cylinders connecting points just above the top points of the 
             spheres, forming a mesh.
             
             This was not done in order to enter the Alien Worlds 
             competition, but after playing about I thought I could make 
             something of it.  The source image was part of the head of a 
             blue parrot.  I then made the obscure visual gag of having a 
             storm coming out of the eye of the parrot.
             
             The glass tube containing the train was an afterthought, and I 
             think it spoils the scene.  But I did not have time to 
             re-render after removing it, so it had to stay.