TITLE: The Night Butterflies NAME: Gena Obukhov COUNTRY: Russia EMAIL: obukhov@mail.com WEBPAGE: http://propro.ru/go/gallery.html TOPIC: Insects and Spiders COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: goinsect.jpg ZIPFILE: goinsect.zip RENDERER USED: MegaPov 0.7 TOOLS USED: pen, graph paper, sPatch, Photoshop RENDER TIME: 3 days 7 hours 46 min. HARDWARE USED: PIII 600MHz 128Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Four night butterflies. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The first idea was to create scene from F.Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". I started to think about lighting already. The cold light from the outside which comes to the room through window and warm light from the living room which comes through the open door. Then I decided to create colorful meadow with many different flowers and butterflies. Then the word "butterfly" made me think about the scene with night butterflies where they fly around light. And then the idea about so-called "night butterflies" came to my mind. I recalled the street Reeperbahn in Hamburg. And here you are :) Here is the detailed description of all objects: - car is pure POV-Ray object. It was drawn on graph paper and then transfered to POV-Ray. The license plate was created in Photoshop - man and girls were modeled in sPatch saved as bicubic patches and painted in POV-Ray - girls' hair was done using Chris Colefax's hair macro - butterflies are pure POV-Ray objects - all lights are "glow" objects. I created some macros for displaying glows in different shapes (line, circle etc.) - all texts are "text" objects - blurred reflection was used for the asphalt to emulate the road after the rain. That's why it took so long to render