TITLE: Cooties

NAME: Greg Gargett
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: ggargett@attbi.com
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: irtclnly.jpg
ZIPFILE: irtclnly.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.3a, Paintshop Pro 5


RENDER TIME: 
    Not worth mentioning


HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway P850 XL


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I thought I'd try to inject a little humor into a rather
depressing subject.  As I was thinking of an angle to the topic I thought,
"What causes loneliness?  Could there be a biological factor?"  So, I took out
the old, trusty Jr. Scientist Discovery microscope and examined a drop of my
own sweat under high magnification.  I should have known...cooties. 



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The "environment" -- Set the background color to white.  To make it look like an
old microscope was used I made a layered texture that makes a hole, a "light
fade" from the middle of the view to the edge of the hole, dirt specs and a
piece of lint.  Put the texture on a plane.

The cooties -- Heightfields.  I was going to use blobs or patches but used a
heightfield just as a test and found that it gave just the look I wanted.  A
nice "cell wall" appears.  Added a little iridescence to the texture to
simulate the light refraction you see in microscopic pictures.