TITLE: The Mycora are coming...
NAME: Chris Jeppesen
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: chrisj@digiquill.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.digiquill.com/kwansys/index.txt
TOPIC: Microcosms
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: cdjmyco.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows v3.10


HARDWARE USED: 

  AMD K6 266MHz w/ 128MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This is a MYCORUM. Doesn't look like much, does it. It's just a simple 
little atomic scale machine, whose sole reason for existence is to 
build more copies of itself. By itself it's not much, but
its strength is it can make copies of itself from whatever is around it.
It really likes organic materials, such as wood, plastic, plants, people,
and it can adapt to whatever environment it is in. Some mycorum have 
evolved to use silicon in stone and glass, some like metals, some like
water, some like air, and so on. They all like heat. If nothing stops them, 
they might take over the world.

This is from Bloom, by Wil McCarthy. Check out the first chapter at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/cache/excerpts/dab/0345408578.html/o/qid=916505
319/sr=2-3/002-7977859-7559007

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
  What is there to tell? It's just basic CSG. 

  I am basically doing this image because I want the right to vote on 
the contest. So all you artists out there, Exercise Your Suffrage! Vote
for the winner of this contest.