EMAIL: pbrasolin@yahoo.it NAME: Paolo Brasolin TOPIC: Museum COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: It COUNTRY: Italy WEBPAGE: http://paolo.brasolin.free.fr/ RENDERER USED: MegaPOV v1.1 TOOLS USED: GIMP v1.2.5 RENDER TIME: 31h 33m 24s HARDWARE USED: PIV 3Ghz, RAM 512 Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Quite a strange picture, I admit. It should be the view of a reliquiary from a camera inside it, and actually it is. This reliquiary protects and shows three not-better-specified ambiguous lifeforms. And there is a lava lamp and one of those cool things with bouncing metal spheres!! And a TV. Now you may ask me "Where's the point?" and I would answer you "I dunno...". The original idea was simpler but more meaningful: I thought about putting those creatures inside a reliquiary with a "Museum" sign (to make them think they are in a museum, but on the opposite side of the glass) and to make them stare at the people staring at them. I still think it's a nice idea (I still may realize it so don't steal it! ;). However, the excess of freetime pulled me to something more complex and less meaningful. That's it. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The furry, uh, animals (?) are made each of two similar blobs structures: the external one is hollow with a special media tipe, the inner one is just plain skin color. The eyes are just a couple of spheres. The tv halo is just a sphere filles with media; its screen uses the noise pigment. The drapeau is created into an external scene (simcloth) and then inserted into the main one. The oven fire is just a bit of emitting media. The lamp cable is a sophere sweep. The thing outside the glass box (It) is made of a bunch of scaled spheres. The lava lamp is made of two caps (a semisphere and a cone) and a sphere section filled with interior. The bubbles inside are randomly placed/thresholded blobs with some interior. There is also a bit of motion blur. I used also a bit of film exposure simulation. I added the title and the author with the GIMP.