TITLE: Visitors
NAME: Paolo Brasolin
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: pbrasolin@yahoo.it
WEBPAGE: http://paolo.brasolin.free.fr/

TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pbvstrs.jpg
ZIPFILE: pbvstrs.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        MegaPOV v1.1


TOOLS USED: 

        GIMP v1.2.5


RENDER TIME: 

        render:         12m 20s
        postprocessing:  5m 23s
        total:          17m 43s


HARDWARE USED: 

        PIV 3Ghz, RAM 512 Mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

      It is the realization of the idea from which my other entry took form
    (though this is my second entry). It's very simple: those things think to
be
    the observers, while in reality they are the observed ones. I kept the
image
    simple to make the idea clearer, but not immediate or obvious. Maybe
looking
    at the green guy's camera and at the sign could make the situation clearer.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

      The furry, uh, animals (?) are made each of two similar blobs structures:
    the external one is hollow with a special media tipe, the inner one
textured
    with a modified (improved?) version of Rune's FurTexture. The eyes are just
    a couple of spheres.
      The sign is made of three isosurfaces, just like the terrain into the
vase
    (wich is a superellipsoid). To write on it I used a projection pattern with
    some blur.
      To make the magenta rope I wrote a simple macro: it's made of two sphere
    sweeps; its texture is a modified version of Rune's FurTexture.
      The background is just four averaged textures.
      There is a motion blur effect on the fan.
      I used also a bit of film exposure simulation.
      There is some post processing to add some edges.
      I added the title and the author with the GIMP.
      Oh, and just a final note: I know I could have used area lights to obtain
    softer lightening on the rope but I wanted to obtain that effect.