TITLE: And I still don't know how it works...
NAME: selsek
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: selsek@fnac.net
WEBPAGE: http://selsek.free.fr
TOPIC: Mystery
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sk_mbox.jpg
ZIPFILE: sk_mbox.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.5 for Windows (megapov 1.0)


TOOLS USED: 

        Photofiltre 3.4b for the book's texture.
        Hamapatch


RENDER TIME: 

        3h09


HARDWARE USED: 

        amd k6-2 350 128Mb (and i'm proud of it)






IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Even after buying this book, i still don't know how you can cut
someone in two without hurting anyone...(and i actually don't know)
//-------
You have sky mysteries (where the universe ends, is there any ET there, etc.),
and the mysteries of dreams, fantasy, magic.
Even if i sometimes want to know what is the trick (like watching a video about
a magician/illusionist at slow speed), i think that i would loose my dreams
along
with this mystery.

This picture shows the willing to discover what one doesn't understand.

And i still don't know what the luminous thing behind the train can be...
maybe a plutonium superfusion hypergenerator...






DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Nothing special.
Boxes for magic boxes, sphere for the watermelon, cylinder+torus for
the paint buckets, and a sphere_sweep for the hosepipe.
The stars on boxes are extrusions made with the text object with the "stars"
font.
It's a very useful technique for complex extruded shapes.
The puddles from the watermelons are height fields made from an "object"
pigment+turbulence, which was blurred.
The hat was made with hamapatch.
The train took me 10 days to make it with
Neuropatch 3.2... THE TRAIN???? Why is it here? Who put it there???
Well, another mystery...

The yellow rag on the paintbuck was made with cloth simulation
implementation in megapov 1.0, by christophe bouffartigue.
I tried to make some kind of brushed metal for the grey plate of
the boxes with a texture from Jaime Vives Piqueres. Unsuccesfully.
Wood textures are from povray include files.

I started this image on June 6th... That's because it was very
hard for me to find a good idea.
It would be better with more details.
Thanks to those who shared their opinion on this image on
zoologique.org/3d.pov-ray.

Older versions of this image on http://selsek.free.fr/mbox/

Thanks to you for having read this to the end!