TITLE: Mathematical Estuary
NAME: Joey Mendoza
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jmendoza@gwhs.denver.k12.co.us
WEBPAGE: http://www.diac.com/~hmendoza
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: imagw.jpg
ZIPFILE: imagw.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0 for Linux with the PVM patch.

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop 4 for JPG and heightfield stuff

RENDER TIME: 
    12min 41sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    6 Pentium II 233's running PVM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Well, in my opinion, math is pretty imaginary. = 

The Mathematical Estuary is a view of a certain world where big and little
mathematical objects alike rule and the sky is green, mostly.  The sun is
shining (and yellow) on a floating island set in an oceanic environment.  You
are observing a strange ritual performed by the solenoids and butterfly curves
as they worship thier godly Lissajous figures and the holy strange chaotic
attractor.  No one knows why, but their dance is somehow enchanting and
peaceful.  It's purpose to only calm the mind of the observer and make him
weary....to subdue him/her....and win him/her over to your side......  



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Just for fun: "Scene contains 85327 frame level objects; 4 infinite."

The landscape is basically a heightfield (bed1.tga) of povray's mandelbrot
texture which I smoothed out and cut off in Photoshop.  The big red and white
things are Lissajous figures whoose formula I found in _Computers and the
Imagination_ by Clifford Pickover.  The little spiraly things orbiting the
Lissajous figures are solenoids which I also found in that book.  The odd
looking clump of spheres is the strange chaotic attractor.  The green things
orbiting that are butterfly curves.  And of course, they all sit on the
mandelbrot.  

The water I made on my own...it's in the source.  The sky came from some povray
homepage (http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3) which I heavily modified to make it
seem imaginary. (It's my favorite part)