TITLE: Cell Wisdom
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@janics.com
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cell.jpg
ZIPFILE: cell.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.1g Dos (ran under Win3.1)


TOOLS USED: 

    jpeg covertion: Lview by Leonardov Haddad Loureiro
    POV editor: (unname) by me & PFE (Programer's File Editor) by Alan Phillips
   
    


RENDER TIME: 

    1 sec. for parse
    5 hours 15 min. 6 sec. for Trace
    5 hours 15 min. 7 sec  total (My next to longest!)


HARDWARE USED: 

   Amd K6 500Mhz 128 Meg RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The ultimate place of worship inside the BRAIN! The worship cell found at last!




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


   This is my Fifth entry. When I first learn of the subject for this round, I
looked
for churches in my old set of encyclopeda and found several. But I couldn't
decide on
a denomination to use and besides how many other contestants will do churches.
Thinking
about other places of woship some people like the mountains, some the sea, some
the 
woods and of couse temples, walls, wells and so fourth. 
What do all of them have in common? The person who is worshiping, more specific
the 
persons brain. That's how the idea came about.
  
  
SCENE : 
     I like to think of this scene as FOUND ART because it uses the random
fuction 
     to make the cells and place the firing synapes on the cells. 

      The scene contains 272 objects, 4 lights, and used Focal Blur of POV and
an 
     AGATE normal on the camera. It's all contained in one relatively short POV
file.

Objects:         

  Cells: There are 20 cells. They are all made from one basic (BLOB) cell shape.
I made
        a function that I call REVERSE TREE that picks random points on the
surface
        of sphere , sorts them into pairs, and makes connections back to the
center
        of that sphere. I used 64 points with a radius of 40 POV units.     
         With my function REVRSE TREE you can stop the progress toward the
center
        any time ya want. So, I stop it at 4 points and use those points to hand
make 
        the cell's nucleus.    
     synapes (as part of a cell) : I use 3 different MEDIA in spheres and put
them
           on the cell using the RAND function. About 1/3 of the end point where
coverd.
      
      I place the and rotated the cells by trial and error. Each with it's own
texture.           
           
  Lights: There's 4 lights of different colors scattered around for effect. All
the 
           lights use FADE to limit their effect.
 

Zip-File:
   
  BRAIN.POV : THE POGRAM
   

Epilgue:
 
 I had fun doing this. With my upgrade I tought that the rendering time whould
lessen.
This scene is my next to longest rendering time, 5 hours. My longest was a
render for
this contest. It had over 2,000 objects. It took 6 hours and when it was done it
look
way to flat. Instead of trying to fix it I started from scratch.

 Feel free to E-mail me with any comments and or suggests.