EMAIL: no13@no13.net NAME: Nathan O'Brien TOPIC: WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Gone to seed COUNTRY: Australia WEBPAGE: www.no13.net RENDERER USED: Megapov .7 TOOLS USED: Hamapatch, leveller, compressed mesh utility RENDER TIME: 20 hours HARDWARE USED: PIII 600 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image started off as a cross between a collection of snow domes and those marbles with galaxies inside them (like the movie, Men In Black). After a bit of mucking around I reverse engineered the concept and asked myself, So what makes the marbles in the first place? This final image is my response to that question. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started work on this on this image using POV3.5 beta. However the latest beta release does not work with the compressed mesh utility by Chris Colefax. As a result I changes the scene over to Megapov 0.7. This sort of stuffed up all my normal settings and some of the textures. I think the POV3.5 version was looking better before I switched over. The petals of the pods were created in Hamapatch and then converted to the compressed mesh format. Most of the scene is an assembly of simple objects using loops and the random function to mix things up a little. Not very technically dificult. The sphere contents should be a lot better, just ran out of time.