EMAIL: diestel@steloj.de
NAME: Wolfram Diestel
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Death of surrealism
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Kpovmodeler, Perl, Python, Tgif (for prisms)
RENDER TIME: 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Duron 700

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This is not a real surrealistic image. 
But it's _about_ surrealism. 
About it's death. 

Surrealism -- 
this is the art 
of visualizing dreams. 

This makes it impossible 
for modern man 
to create 
such kind of art. 


Yesterday 
I couldn't get to sleep
Some sleeping pills
gave me a dreamless night
ending early 
in the morning, 
when I was roused up 
by the loud ringing of 
the alarm clock. 

The night was very short, 
it lacked some hour 
between 12 and midnight
and it lacked any dreams. 

Or -- maybe -- 
there was a dream
but it was killed 
by the short hand 
of the alarm clock 
reaching the other hand 
pointing to the 
five.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Being new to raytracing I could not do any complicated things in
my image. Almost all is made with CSG. The pillow is a height field.
The drops of blood are spheres created by a Perl script. The
giraffe head I made with blobs.

For the tree I implemented a tree algorithm described
in a paper by Jason Weber and Joseph Penn in Python. 
But when I finally got all that nice trees with 
many small branches and leaves, I realized, that 
only a trunk with some Dali-like forkes on it looked
much better in my simplistically image.
Thus the tree generating program was overkill, but may
be somebody would like to use it to make real trees.
So I included it in the zip file.

In the povray doc I did not find how to render
sound as part of the image. So I had to symbolize the 
ringing alarm-clock with this strange transparent bells.