TITLE: Strawberry Juice NAME: Paolo Brasolin COUNTRY: Italy EMAIL: pbrasolin@yahoo.it WEBPAGE: http \\paolo.brasolin.free.fr TOPIC: Epic Proportions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pbstrjui.jpg ZIPFILE: pbstrjui.zip RENDERER USED: MegaPOV v1.0 TOOLS USED: GIMP v1.2.5, PovChem 2.1.1, HamaPatch 2.9 RENDER TIME: 1h 32m 42s HARDWARE USED: PIV 3Ghz, RAM 512 Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Uh... A huge strawberry martini in space seen from a probe. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The objects are quite simple. The glass is a lathe, the ice is an isosurface, the liquid too, the Earth and the Moon are just two spheres with two slightly bigger spheres filled with media and the molecula is composed by spheres and cylinders (a PDB file converted with PovChem). The HUD was done by putting all its elements (text, boxes, discs and the molecula) in a <-1,0,-0.5>,<1,0,0.5> box and by rotating it to orient it towards the camera, and then by translating and scaling it to fit the field of view. The hardest part was modeling the strawberry: I divided the process in three parts: I. I created the basic shape with a couple of blobs. II. I perturbed the shape with some negative blobs: I used a while-trace loop to place them on the surface along a spiral pattern around the y axis; I shoot rays from to <0-sin(n)*2,(3/60*n)-1,0-cos(n)*2> where 3 is the range, 60 is the number of rays to shot and n is n=n+1 every loop. I used it another time to carve holes for the seeds. III. I used it again to place the seeds (I also rotated them by the point normal*36). Finally I placed the leaves, created using HamaPatch. I used Galaxy include file (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/) for the background. The image maps were found at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ and at http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html. GIMP was used to convert the final image to jpeg.