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Image:		sjg-internet

Background:	Entry for the March 1995 Internet Raytrace Competition

Render time: 	800x600 with 0.3 anti-aliasing:
		6 hours 15 minutes using POV 2.2 under Solaris 2.x
		on a 2-headed Sun SPARC 10 with 128 Meg of memory.

Legal:		Created by Samuel J. Goldstein.
		This file is Copyright (C) 1995. All rights reserved. You may
		use this source file to create the scene or use the components
		in your own scenes, with or without modifications, freely
		for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes. Please send me a copy of any
		scene (other than the original) that incorporates any
		significant part of this file.

		Commercial users please contact me for terms of use or
		information about my art services.

		I can be reached at:
		4227 Sunnyside Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066-5609
		310-822-5426
		goldstein@aerospace.aero.org

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Well, this was a busy month, so I wasn't able to finish this image correctly.
I wasted altogether too much time making the webs accurate (i.e., radial supports
connected by series of Fibonacci spirals, and catenaries instead of straight line
segments.). One accurate web rendered about two nights and was less than 20% done,
so I decided that quick'n'dirty straight line approximations would look OK.

I should have spent that time modelling a few computers that I could fling around
in the scene. I originally envisioned an infinite series of webs filled with people
and computers. Oh well.

No modeller was used in creating this scene. No post-processing, other than the
conversion from TGA to JPG.

Files:
sjg-internet.jpg - the picture
sjg-internet.jpg.txt - this file
sjg-internet.sea - a CompactPro (Mac) archive containing the source files
... email me for other source formats.