EMAIL:kralovic@dcs.fmph.uniba.sk NAME:Rastislav Kralovic TOPIC:Fortress COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Cell COUNTRY: Slovakia WEBPAGE: http://www.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~kralovic RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g + a custom patch from Dushan Bezak TOOLS USED: text editor, Xview to convert the image into jpeg format, gimp for textures. RENDER TIME: 41501s (cca 11h 30min) , cca 169MB memory peak HARDWARE USED: PII 500 MHz 128 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The cells in my body are tiny fortresses fighting against evil flu viruses. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It is a test image for Dushan's POV-Ray patch which allows for automatical placement of objects. The cell tops are made of spheres placed on (invisible) hexagons and lifted according to onion texture. Similarly, the thorns on the lighters are layouted on the surface of a blob model. The eye lashes, cell walls, virus teeth, hairs, and the intracellular thingies are also placed using the patch. Other models are only a couple of blobs and csgs. The textures used were free on the net, I made some corrections to them in gimp. The eye texture is due Toni Bratincevic. The lighting is bad, but I ran out of time (the flu viruses got me). The image was ment to look quite different.