TITLE: Moth & Lantern
NAME: Gregory H. Revera
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: Revera@concentric.net
WEBPAGE: www.concentric.net\~Revera
TOPIC: Night- still image
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: moth.jpg
ZIPFILE: moth.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray for Windows 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows 3.0

RENDER TIME: 
    About 16 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix 6x86 PR155

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A common night scene balances the fragile moth with the
destructive flame.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This is the first full scene I have
done and the first time I used the newly released Moray for Windows.  This new
version has plenty of new tools I tried to incorporate into the image.  The
glass is a spline object rotated, the brass tubes are constructed using
cylinders for the straight parts and bezier patches for the curved areas.  The
flame is a rotated spline object with 5 lights to give it brightness.   The
wings of the moth are spline objects with a very small height to keep them
thin.  The body of the moths are rotated spline objects.  My name and date in
the lower right hand corner were made using Moray's text editor which is now
incorporated into the program.  .... There is still a lot of work that can be
done on this image, I got bogged down with taxes (dam that IRS) and never got
to making the final improvements.  The wings of the moth are not  quite right,
the left is different from the right.  Also the flame needs some work to make
it look more genuine.  The glass seems solid (although it isn't) and all
attempts to improve this aspect really bogged down the computer.  It had been
suggested to me to add a background, like bushes or trees, but everything I
tried seemed to take away from the "night" theme.