EMAIL: art@cps.tver.ru
NAME: Alexander Artemenko
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Outside of the Asylum
COUNTRY: Russian Federation
WEBPAGE: http://digitalguru.sf.net
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: The Gimp (for image conversion and title)
RENDER TIME: About 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: PIII 800 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

        "His house was called The Outside of the Asylum.

         His name was simply John Watson, though he preferred to be called
         -  and  some  of his friends had now reluctantly agreed to this -
         Wonko the Sane."
                      
		      Douglas Adams. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

    To creation of this picture lead fun book by Douglas Adams -
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and I want to say Great Thanks
to him. In the four part of this book author depict scene full of surrealism.
Place called "The outside of the Asylum" is house of one character. His name
is John Watson or Wonko the Sane, how he called himself. This is house
topsy-turvy. All decor of the house is situated outside and that very strange.
But inside house a grass and trees are grow.

    So I desided to draw this house. At first I wanted to make my picture
with big number of details, but then I deside gone from reality and to add
some distortions.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

    Hey, there is some description how this image was created. I'll be
short, because brevity sister of the talent.

    Almost all what you see is CSG. Some jpg images was used as wallpapers
and for Dali's self-portrait (on the wall).

    I'd make grass inside (or outside :)) house with Makegrass macro by
Gilles Tran and place one tree in the house with modified TomTree macro by
Tom Aust.

    I'd make parquet with simple boxes and macro, to place them on the floor.

    Rug in front the door is one blob with big number of spheres.

    Next some random objects in the air was added.

    Finally radiosity was added, but result was to real so I deside to add
some distortion. To do that, "normal" block was added to camera with bump
settings, and I'd place ISO glass (created with granite pigment function)
in front the camera to make some small distortions.

    Ok, I don't want to torment you with my ugly english anymore.
Bye and have a fun!