TITLE: Along Came a Spider ...
NAME: Julian MacDonald
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: macdonald@lonhelyg.freeserve.co.uk
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jmacspid.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray v3.3, Painter, PaintShop Pro, Hamapatch, sPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    ~ 8 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 500 MHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

3 flies settle down for a feast but they should have taken more notice of their
surroundings.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I used Moray to put the scene together and Povray 3.1g to render.  Grass was
created by the excellent Giles Tran macro turned into a Moray plugin by Keith
Hull.  The flies and the spider were modelled in HamaPatch and exported via
sPatch into Moray.  Textures were either procedural or image-maps created in
Paintshop Pro and/or Painter.  The brick wall is made up of separate 'bricks'
created as translational sweeps.  The ivy leaves were created in Hamapatch and
image-mapped with scanned-in leaves.  A bump map was also put on the main leaf
using a thresholded image created from the ivy image map.  Buckets and stones
were also modelled in HamaPatch.  The patio is a heightfield.  The lolly and
lego block were created in Moray.
I used the focal blur in Pov-ray.  This increased the rendering time
phenomenonally (by a factor of 8).  I had tried to use the post processing
focal blur in Megapov but, for some reason, when I tried to render the scene in
Megapov it looked different (even without the focal blur).