EMAIL : 101741.541@compuserve.com NAME : Fabien MOSEN TOPIC : MAGIC COPYRIGHT : I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE : SOAP BUBBLES FACTORY COUNTRY : BELGIUM WEBPAGE : ??? RENDERER USED : POV 3.02 TOOLS USED : "terrain maker" RENDER TIME : 15:23 HARDWARE USED : 486 DX2 66 IMAGE DESCRIPTION : Well, magic is sometimes in the simplest things. Soap bubbles are simple and marvellous things, but how are they made ? I think they come from a soapy country where lies a soap sea, which washes everything around, giving a bright white ambience all around. What we see here is a close-up of a "fract-a-bubble" bubbling device, surrounded by it's natural environnement; nobody really knows how it works, but it does its job very well, so nobody minds. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED : All was done by hand, the height_field being created with "terrain maker". The golden vault volume is inspired by the CNIT building in Paris, an almost unique example of tri-directionnal vault (quite difficult to explain, there is an image of it in the .zip file). The white ambience is given by a little over-exposed touch in every light and texture. The interior of the bubbling device is made with a combination of julia fractals, set up with trial-and-error(s) method. That's all, folks !