TITLE: Lernaean Dawn
NAME: John Gardiner
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: john@greenbaize.demon.co.uk
TOPIC: Mythology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jwghydra.jpg
ZIPFILE: jwghydra.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Thumbs Plus to convert image to jpg

RENDER TIME: 
    40m 00s

HARDWARE USED: 
    2.66 GHz Pentium 256 MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Lerna marsh at first light - the hydra tastes the air for human scent.

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I did an Internet search to see how the hydra should really look. It didn't help
much. All sorts of monsters turned up, but the Herculean legends often referred
to hydra as a water-snake and the older images (from ancient Greek pottery)
tended to be very snake like too.

And I liked the snake - the image really appealed. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The snake's body is just lots of spheres. I've included the two key files as a
zip. It is one-off code; it's not reusable as it stands.

The head is based on a blob object.

Many thanks for the Make Grass macro by Gilles Tran - March 1999