TITLE: the beauty and the beast
NAME: n kita
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: serbel@utu.fi
WEBPAGE: already more than a year under construction!
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: hirv.jpg
ZIPFILE: hirv.zip
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: see text for details
RENDER TIME: 4 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The image is created with POV-Ray for Windows 3.xx. Only the curtains are
imported (I had no time
to play with bicubic patches in POV-Ray). HIRV.ZIP file contains all the data
used. Besides,
the file K01.POV (used to create the crown-pattern) is also enclosed. The
crown-texture does not
have any specific meaning and was created for fun only. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Written and raytraced with POV-Ray v3.0 for Windows 3.xx.

The monster:
- Body and legs are done with blobs using blob{...#while...sphere{ (or
cylinder{
) ... etc.
- Wings are real ones. A microscopic image of an insect's wing was digitized
with an image analysis
system. The insect was most probably a mosquito or small-size cranefly or
something like that.
The image file (TIFF) was imported to Corel Draw 4.0 and manually (by hand)
traced. The curves were
exported from Corel as DXF. the DXF file was taken to a word-processor, and all
except the coordinates
of the vertices were removed, using Find-and-Replace command. The coordinates
were used to create blobs
with cylindrical elements and a polygon. (The whole procedure took only about
an
hour).
 
The monstrous insect is actually quite small. It's just positioned close to the
camera and to one of the
area_lights. I'm quite unhappy with the shadow, it's too unclear (on the bed).

The guy:
- Head is done with blobs. Hair is a halo.

Other objects:
- Done mostly with blobs and other finite solid primitives.
- Curtains are imported (Autocad -> 3DStudio -> POV-Ray).
- The crown-texture is an image raytraced with POV-Ray.
- Butterflies were scanned from a book.

Light sources:
- one area_light inside the room another outside and far away. 

All the objects are included in HIRV.ZIP. Please feel free to use them.