TITLE: Freaks
NAME: Gilles L_vy
COUNTRY: France (Paris)
EMAIL: gilles.levy@plume.fr
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: glfreaks.jpg
ZIPFILE: glfreaks.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for windows 3.00e

RENDER TIME: 
    55 minutes (800x600, AA 0.3)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II - 266 Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Just a ball in a box... But, at first, I had a certain
surprise to discover that this image seems to evoke a kind of attack or
rebellion (it was a little strange that those elementary forms could give this
feeling). Subsequently, I decided to accentuate this impression : many little
old wrinkle plastic cubes locking up gradually a generous radiant pompous and
arrogant sphere. At the end, I understood that this image refer to an other old
image I saw when I was young, the image of the final stage of an old film :
"Freaks".

HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED : 
- 3 declared objects : Superquadric cube, Sphere, Cylindre.
- an intensive use of loops to generate the repetitive objects.
- some random numbers (color and distribution).
- And some others parameters to make many tests : the number of cubes, the ratio
between cubes and hole, the density of the distribution, the relative
dimensions of the objects...