EMAIL: Villard_F@Decus.Fr
NAME: Fabien Villard
TOPIC: First Encounter
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COUNTRY: France
TITLE: Tu veux jouer avec moi ? (Do you play with me ?)
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.