TITLE: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DR. DELICATE NAME: LARRY PAGE COUNTRY: U.S.A. EMAIL: taymac@peaknet.net WEBPAGE: http://www.peaknet.net/~taymac/ TOPIC: THE LABROTORY COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: drdelica.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-RAY TOOLS USED: 3DS, MORAY, POV-RAY RENDER TIME: APPROX. 4 HRS. HARDWARE USED: PENT 11, 350 MGH, 198 RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: THE IMAGE IS SITUATED IN THE LAB OF DR. DELICATE, WHO IS A SLIGHTLY MIXED UP, OR MAD DOCTOR/SCIENTIST, HE IS WORKING ON AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING ATOM DISPLACEMENT BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS (MICE}...WAY BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN I WAS A SCULPTOR I DID A SERIES OF SCULPTURES BASED UPON DR. DELICATE AND HIS ADVENTURES OF LABROTORY SCIENCE, IN THE FORM OF DIARAMAS, NOW A DAYS I AM USING 3-D COMPUTER WORK SO WITH THIS IMAGE AND THE TOPIC I REVISITED THE WORLD OF DR. DELICATE..I MAY DO A SERIES FROM THIS START..THE LABROTORY TOPIC WAS TO MUCH TO PASS UP....I ENJOYED WORKING ON THE SCENE VERY MUCH DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I USED 3DS MAX, AND MORAY TO MODEL THE SCENE AND POV-RAY TO RENDER IT....I USE 3DS TO MAKE MODELING PARTS NOT AVAILABLE IN MORAY...THEN EXPORT THEM INTO MORAY...I USED THE TEXTURE LIBRARIES IN MORAY AND MODIFIED THEM FOR EFFECTS, ALSO USED SOME IMAGE MAPS...FOR THE BRICK WALL AND MAIN LAB TABLE. I LOVE USING MORAY OTHER THAN ITS INABILITY TO MODEL SOME COMPLEX OBJECTS...I THINK ITS INTERFACE IS LIKE BRING THERE. AND THEN RENDERED IT IN POV-RAY WITH RADIOSITY, WHICH IS A GREAT FEATURE IN POV, DURING THE LONG RENDERS WHICH WERE FOR THE MOST PART ABOUT 4 HRS,,,I WATCHED THE PLAYOFF GAMES BETWEEN THE METS AND CARDINALS, TO MY DISMAY THE METS BEAT MY HOMETOWN TEAM....BUT WE STILL HAVE THE RAMS GOING STRONG...