TITLE: Tu veux jouer avec moi ? (Do you play with me ?) NAME: Fabien Villard COUNTRY: France EMAIL: Villard_F@Decus.Fr TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: fab_fe1.jpg ZIPFILE: fab_fe1.zip RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision v3 TOOLS USED: KPD (personnal "snakes" modeler), real camera (height field images), text editor. RENDER TIME: 40 CPU hours. HARDWARE USED: PC Pentium 166, 96Mb RAM, under Linux. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Gif files of little stones are used to make the 15 smooth height fields for the walls. The humanoid is made of manualy shaped blobs. The antennas are modeled using a homemade program that I wrote to learn X programming. It actualy has no spline smoothing, so I used a focal blur to minimize the "non-natural" effects near the camera. And in fact it's more realistic to have a blur on the things near the eyes, even if the subjective viewer is probably not a human :-) The inspiration is very classic, of course, with no special interpretation of the theme, but that's what the "First Encounter" theme made me think first. I hope the idea of surprise and interest, with no fear, is visible in the expresion of the humanoid. Fab.