TITLE: Arctic Meat The Chilling Encounter NAME: H. E. Day COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: PovRayGuy@aol.com WEBPAGE: HTTP //WWW.TELEPORT.COM/~milan/CYLYcon/index.html TOPIC: Horror COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ameat.jpg ZIPFILE: ameat.zip RENDERER USED: Pov Ray 3.1G MINI PATCH TOOLS USED: GUM POVRAY EDITOR RENDER TIME: 3 1/2 Days CREATION TIME: 3 weeks HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200 Mhz 32MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Private Ben "Bubba" Zowinski was on guard duty. He was sitting in a hut, in the Arctic, freezing his posterior off watching reruns of Home Improvement. It looks so warm in there, he thought over and over. The TV gave a little jiggle. Bubba ignored it. The TV, being of an insolent attitude, shook again. Bubba scowled. The TV was now close to rattling off the table. Bubba switched it off. Didn't help. He got up, took note that the entire hut was vibrating slightly, and moved towards the door. His head popped out of the door, then promptly shot back in. There was just enough time to see the flaming streak of light slamming into the snow outside the fence. With a final bounce the jarring ceased. Bubba spent several minutes debating with himself if it was worth the lost and frozen body parts to go out and investigate. Finally, decided, he picked up his gun and fur coat, and opened the door. His eyebrows promptly froze. Rubbing at them vigorously, he trudged toward the fence gate. Whatever was out there was steaming in billowing clouds. He stood off to the side and examined the object. His first thought was - It looks like a beetle. His second - A BIG beetle. The carapace started to shift, and Bubba was hit with a sudden longing to be elsewhere. Being fond of self survival, he acted on this impulse immediately. Five running steps later his head and body parted company. His body, without commands to the contrary, crumpled to the ground. His head, however, continued onward for another 5 feet. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The terrain is made of two parts, the foreground, which is a blob, and the background which is a heightfield. The building is a multilevel macro, with separate textures for each floor. The fence was made in SPatch, and makes use of UV Mapping. The sky is a cylinder with a panoramic render of stsky.pov. The alien pod is also a blob with a image_map. That's it, I guess. The .zip file is lacking in several key images, and is provide to only let you see how I made this image.