TITLE: Medusa's head

NAME: Henk Lasschuit
COUNTRY: The Netherlands

EMAIL: henklass@dds.nl
WEBPAGE: http://huizen.dds.nl/~henklass

TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: hlmedusa.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1


TOOLS USED: 
    Graphic Converter 2.6 (for conversion only)


RENDER TIME: 
    39 minutes, 32 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G3/300


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's the head of Medusa. the old Greek lady with the snakes on her head,
who was so ugly that you'd turn into stone from sheer fright if you looked
at her without the help of a mirror or something. I hope you read this text
before looking at the picture.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The main purpose of this image was to build a snake out of some
torus-segments and connecting them with the help of trigonometric
functions. Second purpose was to put the snakes on the head using
programming loops with some random variation in position and rotation. The
rest of the head is CSG. And I came up with some pretty nice textures, I
think.

To put  some kind of unity into this work of art, I gave the eyes of the
snakes the same texture as the eyesockets in the head and the skysphere's
pigment is gradient from the pigment of the lips to that of the teeth.

I have been in doubt about whether I should give the lady some eyelids, but
I kinda like these eyeballs bulging from their hollow sockets.


There's still a problem with my Mac-zipfile. Mail me if you're interested
in the sourcecode (16K).