EMAIL: jmendoza@gwhs.denver.k12.co.us
NAME: Joey Mendoza
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Mathematical Estuary
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.diac.com/~hmendoza
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Linux with the PVM patch.
TOOLS USED: Photoshop 4 for JPG and heightfield stuff
RENDER TIME: 12min 41sec
HARDWARE USED: 6 Pentium II 233's running PVM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Well, in my opinion, math is pretty imaginary. =]

The Mathematical Estuary is a view of a certain world where big and little mathematical objects alike rule and the sky is green, mostly.  The sun is shining (and yellow) on a floating island set in an oceanic environment.  You are observing a strange ritual performed by the solenoids and butterfly curves as they worship thier godly Lissajous figures and the holy strange chaotic attractor.  No one knows why, but their dance is somehow enchanting and peaceful.  It's purpose to only calm the mind of the observer and make him weary....to subdue him/her....and win him/her over to your side......  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Just for fun: "Scene contains 85327 frame level objects; 4 infinite."

The landscape is basically a heightfield (bed1.tga) of povray's mandelbrot texture which I smoothed out and cut off in Photoshop.  The big red and white things are Lissajous figures whoose formula I found in _Computers and the Imagination_ by Clifford Pickover.  The little spiraly things orbiting the Lissajous figures are solenoids which I also found in that book.  The odd looking clump of spheres is the strange chaotic attractor.  The green things orbiting that are butterfly curves.  And of course, they all sit on the mandelbrot.  

The water I made on my own...it's in the source.  The sky came from some povray homepage (http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3) which I heavily modified to make it seem imaginary. (It's my favorite part)