TITLE: A taste of honey
NAME: Fabien MOSEN
COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking)
EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/chkpage.htm (under const.)
TOPIC: NATURE
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: fmnatt.jpg
ZIPFILE: fmnat.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.02 MS-DOS

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, Lparser, Corel 3, Galaxy.inc, terrain maker.

RENDER TIME: 
    24 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6/233 (250 soon ) - 64 Mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A sunny afternoon;  The cycle of nature is going in a strange way :
Mom has put an empty honey pot on the window shelf, poured some water
and put a nice flower in the pot and... look : a bee is naively browsing
the flower, collecting some pollen.  Guess what the pollen will become...


HOW WAS IT MADE :

 The bee is originally a nice model by N.B. (permission given), which I modified to
 obtain different colours, because the original model was a wasp.
 
 The flower is a bunch of scaled spheres with a radial pink-white pigment (+turbulence)
 The flower's leaf is a little sPatch-made bezier patch.
 
 The grass ground is, I must admit, a dumb image_map onto a plane (but it works well, no ?).
 
 The honey pot is pure CSG, merge instead of union, because of the glass.
 The label on the pot is made in Corel 3.
 
 The window shelf is a box and a height_field, the latter used to give the scratched look.
 Note that the window is constructively right (could be a real functionning one)
 
 The wooden walls system is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's "board and batten" ussonian building system.
  
 The sun is placed at the REAL EARTH-TO-SUN distance !!  My scene being modelled in centimeters as a unit,
 you may expect a certain amount of zeroes !!  More : the sun is an area_light (thousands of kilometers
 wide !), giving a slighly fuzzy shadow...  Am I nuts ?

 And the cute cactus : simple CSG, with many many many little dry leaves..