TITLE: MEEP MEEP
NAME: Fabien MOSEN
COUNTRY: BELGIUM
EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: not yet !
TOPIC: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: meep.jpg
ZIPFILE: meep.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    POV 3.02


TOOLS USED: 

    Terrain Maker, Blob Sculptor


RENDER TIME: 

    2 hours


HARDWARE USED: 

    486 DX2 66


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Well, interpretation of topic is simple :
art/entertainment > home entertainment > video !
You love watching "road runner", it's your favourite cartoon !  
So, you watched this video hundreds and hundreds of times, and here's the
result : the tape is completely worn out, colors are gone, edges are 
fuzzy,... Damn VHS (or Beta, or anything else) ! 
note : this image is used in my other entry (fmae.jpg), as an image map.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The main idea here is to bring very low quality JPG conversion as main 
part of the concept !  JPEG quality setting under 15 provide some (bad)
video-like aspect.  And it's NOT "postprocessing" !!!  This time, when 
I will read the comments about my image, I will know who has read the text
file, and who has not !

Technical stuff now...
The mountains were done by creating a 512x512 heightfield, then reducing 
it to 128x128, giving a "sharp" aspect when rendering, like in cartoons
(it would be too smooth otherwise...). The little cantilevered rock is 
a julia (wonderful primitive !) The yellow ground uses a crackle texture 
to simulate little rocks all over.  The road is a blob made of 200 
cylinders with a sinus function. Cactuses are blobs. 
Everything else is "what you think it is" !