TITLE: In the mind of a nerd
NAME: Andrew Paxxo
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: andypaxo@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nerdmind.jpg
ZIPFILE: nerdmind.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.01 and POVray's internal editor

RENDER TIME: 
    5m 29s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel Celeron 450Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        This image is based on my own experience of life in general. I spend a
lot of my time (too much), thinking about, drawing and creating virtual worlds
on computers.
        It becomes easy to surround yourself with your thoughts, they become
your life and your surrounding, forming an impenetrable fortress between you
and the 'real world'. The unique thing about this type of fortress is that it
is totally invisible; People on the outside can look straight at it, even try
to get into it, without knowing it exists. Even the person on the inside can
sometimes be so involved in creating the fortress that even they don't know it
exists. The worrying thing for me is that I am only 16 and cannot remember when
I started to create the parts of this huge, dynamic world that I find myself
in.

        From my on experience, however this variety of fortress is not entirely
impenetrable, there is one thing that can break in:

        God.
         (AKA. Father God, Jesus, Holy Sprit)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        For most of the scene I used Moray v3.01. It is entrely constructed from
CSGs of cylinders, boxes, spheres and torii; except for a couple of bits of the
person (Bezier patches) and the toes of the yellow robot (Prisms). To create
the media effects (the gun blast), I used POVray's internal text editor.
        The zip contains the Moray *.mdl file.
        If anyone has advice on modelling people, or on creating media effects
in Moray, it would be most appreciated.