EMAIL: Castlewrks@aol.com
NAME: Robert J Becraft
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: "Genetics: When Something Gets Away"
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://user.aol.com/castlewrks
         http://user.aol.com/castlewrks/metaphaze  <-- AD&D world
         http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/6080  <-- POV Main-Street w/ link to Cities Galleries
RENDERER USED: POV for Windows 3.12
TOOLS USED:  POV, Windows Paint, I_View32
RENDER TIME: about 1 hour 57 minutes, 18 meg of memory
HARDWARE USED: IBM 750 laptop, 128meg ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"Genetics: When Something Gets Away" is an image that is intended to tell a story.  In the dungeon lab,
creatures are manipulated in strange ways.  There are fish tanks to the left, a large pressure tank in
the back and two cages to the front.  The first thing to notice is the cage in the foreground has bars
that have been bent upwards... something got out... and then the blood splattered floor leading across
to the poor security guard's hand... or was it the scientist who conducted the experiments?... perhaps
we'll never know... and the open sewer grate where the creature escaped through... perhaps he is looking
in your window even now... drooling... hungry...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The image was created by first building the room.  

Other items were added to the room to bring it to it's present configuration.  Many more items were planned
but time is a POV-ers worst enemy.

Worst of all is the lights in this scene.  Trying to place random lights on and off in the green-rimmed
light fixtures became this images worst enemy.  Render times with all the lights on were too long to finish
this image.  Instead some strategic lighting to show off the details was placed instead giving the shorter
render time reported above.