EMAIL: ipotapenko@hotmail.com
NAME: Ivan Potapenko
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A Surrealistic View Of The Naturalistic World
COUNTRY: Norway
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: POV Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: The GIMP
RENDER TIME: 2h 38min
HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 1,4GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I was expirimenting with isosurfaces when I got the idea to make this image.

My picture describes the world we live in and it's true nature. It shows how
alone and lost we are, spending our lives on a small island. And though 
sometimes
things look bright, red and colorful, the reality outside is grey and dark.

Each thing in the scene is a symbol to something.
The telescope is there because all of us want to see, understand and explain 
the
world around, but the only thing we see is the fog (which is also present on 
the
picture).The rainbow is our happy moments, but again the top of it 
disappears in
the thick grey fog. The red star is love, sailing high above us.
The worm is an unusual human being, who sticks out of the croud. He or she 
is
special in some kind of way, not like rest. Though his tale is already in 
the
croud. He has to adapt to the others - human beings don't like differences.
The key and the blue cloud are symbols of our technology.
Tower of stone is our culture.
The white moon reminds us that the things we think are forever are always
temporary. To the left you can see a half of a fishing rod. It's the link to
other worlds. The line is thin and almost invisible. That's why we don't 
usually
see it. Though it's hooked on to some-thing very usual - a cup.
We look in the mirror to remember the moments of our past life.

The idea behind the picture is really pissimistic.
Though the door (in the middle) is still open. May be there is yet a way 
out?
But where does thatdoor lead?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

No rocket science here. Just the usual csg structures, some texture mapping
(these textures were made with the GIMP) and some textures from povrays 
included
library (T_Gold, T_Wood). The "cake" is an isosurface with 3d noise 
function. You
can see a Julia fractal over the key (the cloud). Handle of the cup to the 
left
is a heightfield. Cup itself is a SOR. The key is a prism. The star is
asuperquadratic ellipsoid. Worm is a blob with a simple checker pattern.