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