EMAIL: pbrasolin@yahoo.it
NAME: Paolo Brasolin
TOPIC: Museum
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: It
COUNTRY: Italy
WEBPAGE: http://paolo.brasolin.free.fr/

RENDERER USED:
	MegaPOV v1.1

TOOLS USED:
	GIMP v1.2.5

RENDER TIME:
	31h 33m 24s

HARDWARE USED:
	PIV 3Ghz, RAM 512 Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
      Quite a strange picture, I admit. It should be the view of a reliquiary
    from a camera inside it, and actually it is. This reliquiary protects and
    shows three not-better-specified ambiguous lifeforms. And there is a lava
    lamp and one of those cool things with bouncing metal spheres!! And a TV.
    Now you may ask me "Where's the point?" and I would answer you "I dunno...".
    The original idea was simpler but more meaningful: I thought about putting
    those creatures inside a reliquiary with a "Museum" sign (to make them
    think they are in a museum, but on the opposite side of the glass) and to
    make them stare at the people staring at them. I still think it's a nice
    idea (I still may realize it so don't steal it! ;). However, the excess of
    freetime pulled me to something more complex and less meaningful. That's it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
      The furry, uh, animals (?) are made each of two similar blobs structures:
    the external one is hollow with a special media tipe, the inner one is just
    plain skin color. The eyes are just a couple of spheres.
      The tv halo is just a sphere filles with media; its screen uses the noise
    pigment.
      The drapeau is created into an external scene (simcloth) and then inserted
    into the main one.
      The oven fire is just a bit of emitting media.
      The lamp cable is a sophere sweep.
      The thing outside the glass box (It) is made of a bunch of scaled spheres.
      The lava lamp is made of two caps (a semisphere and a cone) and a sphere
    section filled with interior. The bubbles inside are randomly
    placed/thresholded blobs with some interior.
      There is also a bit of motion blur.
      I used also a bit of film exposure simulation.
      I added the title and the author with the GIMP.