TITLE: Vedic Dream NAME: Maneesh Yadav COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: yadavm@scripps.edu WEBPAGE: www.eyetap.org/~maneesh TOPIC: Worship COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: vd.jpg RENDERER USED: blender TOOLS USED: blender 2.1, gimp 1.21 RENDER TIME: 2min HARDWARE USED: PIII 600 256MB ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's 10 minutes before Mar. 1st so this is going to come out sounding like a it was typed by someone in a delirium who has lost his dictionary...please forigve me. I've recently found vedic mythology rather fascinating. It is very biological in nature...one can look back and see the hybridization, mutation of mythological beings and stories which are themselves composites of real stories. We can further hybridize these beings to create new and beutiful forms. If gods could do research, they migh spend time creating universes...all kinds of types. Some of them are mistakes and die, others are bred only to be killed later. Gods may play with universes just as modern biologists tinker with cells; producing amazing results by working with an unbeliveably complex machine, yet only doing so to climb a step higher in the steep mountain which is understanding the machine. Is the process of experimentation and meditating on the results and gaining understanding not worship? Do we worhsip cells? Do gods worship universes? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used blender for just about everything (including modelling the enitre body with an smesh)...I wish I could animate it, but no matter what I try, the arms kept bending like straws when I used IKAs, so I manually modelled the position of the body. Gimp was used to make the flower texture. The wings were particle system (it surprisingly didn't take me long to do them)... Sigh, when I was working on it, I thought this'd finally be the picture that would turn out right...it really feels like it's missing something big, but I couldn't figure it out in time. But I think I was actaully able to put some artistic quality in this picture (as compared to what I've done so far)... Thanks to Ton et al. for making such a great piece of software, and IRTC for the competition.